{"id":57347,"date":"2019-01-22T18:54:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T18:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57347"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T18:55:47","slug":"american-routes-racial-palimpsests-and-the-transformation-of-race-oliver-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57347","title":{"rendered":"American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race [Oliver Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race<\/strong> [Oliver Review]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Race, Politics, Justice<\/a>
\n2018-06-01<\/p>\n

Pamela Oliver<\/strong><\/a>, Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison<\/em><\/p>\n

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Angel Adams Parham\u2019s book American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race<\/em><\/a> (Oxford, 2017, available in hardcover and as an ebook from many vendors) is an exciting work that makes a novel and important contribution to our understanding of race in the US<\/a>. The \u201cracial palimpsest<\/a>\u201d idea is that different racial systems layer over each other and can coexist as different groups struggle over their identity and position in society. Parham\u2019s case is the refugees who fled the revolution in St. Domingue<\/a> (present-day Haiti<\/a>) and joined the Louisiana Creoles<\/a> between 1791 and 1810. This migration almost doubled the population and left New Orleans<\/a> blacker, more African, and with a larger proportion of free people of color. New Orleans and Louisiana<\/a> had been governed first by the Spanish and then the French and had operated with a tri-partite<\/a> racial system that permitted open relations between free people of color and whites and the accumulation of wealth by free people of color<\/a>; allowed mixed-race offspring to inherit; treated whiteness as a matter of appearance and status, not purity; and both provided more possibilities for slaves to become free and permitted slaves more freedom to congregate than the Anglo-American system. When the United States acquired Louisiana in 1803<\/a>, this French racial system was viewed as dangerous by the white Anglo-Americans and the two systems came into confrontation…<\/p>\n

Read the entire view here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angel Adams Parham\u2019s book “American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race” is an exciting work that makes a novel and important contribution to our understanding of race in the US. The \u201cracial palimpsest\u201d idea is that different racial systems layer over each other and can coexist as different groups struggle over their identity and position in society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,369,8,6462,394,20],"tags":[29288,1438,29293],"class_list":["post-57347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-angel-adams-parham","tag-new-orleans","tag-pamela-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57349,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions\/57349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}