{"id":60577,"date":"2021-02-15T02:55:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T02:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60577"},"modified":"2021-02-15T02:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T02:55:51","slug":"what-did-make-louisiana-and-especially-its-port-city-new-orleans-different-from-the-english-colonies-or-the-eastern-seaboard-was-the-way-it-understood-race-mixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60577","title":{"rendered":"What did make Louisiana, and especially its port city, New Orleans, different from the English colonies or the eastern seaboard was the way it understood race mixture."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>None of this, of course, should encourage the reader to think of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louisiana<\/a> as any sort of racial haven. Louisiana began as a white idea and remained one: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Choctaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choctaw<\/a> kindnesses were repaid with genocide, most Africans were shipped in as chattel slaves, and Europeans walked the land as rulers, just as they did everywhere else. What did make Louisiana, and especially its port city, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Orleans<\/a>, different from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thirteen_Colonies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English colonies<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Coast_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eastern seaboard<\/a> was the way it understood race mixture. Though white Americans also had sex with Africans and Indians, they usually denied its result. Anyone with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cone drop\u201d of African blood<\/a> was by the American schema defined as black, and everyone else was effectively white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe Wood, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fade to Black: Once Upon a Time in Multi-Racial America<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Village Voice<\/em>, 12\/08\/1994. 25-34. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2019\/12\/04\/escape-from-blackness-once-upon-a-time-in-creole-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2019\/12\/04\/escape-from-blackness-once-upon-a-time-in-creole-america\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of this, of course, should encourage the reader to think of Louisiana as any sort of racial haven. Louisiana began as a white idea and remained one: Choctaw kindnesses were repaid with genocide, most Africans were shipped in as chattel slaves, and Europeans walked the land as rulers, just as they did everywhere else. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31190,1438,11098,601],"class_list":["post-60577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-joe-wood","tag-new-orleans","tag-the-village-voice","tag-village-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60577","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=60577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60578,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60577\/revisions\/60578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}