{"id":8935,"date":"2010-09-14T19:22:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2014-10-09T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:33:02","slug":"whats-in-a-name-mixed-race-families-and-resistance-to-racial-codification-in-eighteenth-century-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8935","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/00161071-2010-002\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fhs.dukejournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">French Historical Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fhs.dukejournals.org\/content\/vol33\/issue3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 33, Number 3<\/a> (2010)<br \/>\nPages 357-385<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/00161071-2010-002\" target=\"_blank\">10.1215\/00161071-2010-002<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/palmer.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer L. Palmer<\/a><\/strong>, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint-Domingue\" target=\"_blank\">Saint-Domingue<\/a> planter Aim\u00e9-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Rochelle\" target=\"_blank\">La Rochelle<\/a>: he literally brought some of its complications with him. Five of his mixed-race children by his former slave Jeanne arrived with or soon after their white father. The very existence of this family complicated an increasingly easy equation between blackness and slavery, and for both the planter and his children, family ties shaped their experience of race and status. In the midst of growing racial paranoia in France and legislation that regulated all people of color, Fleuriau and his daughter Marie-Jeanne privileged family over race as a means of carving out a position of autonomy for themselves in French society, albeit in very different ways and for very different reasons. In doing so, they shaped what the category &#8220;family&#8221; meant in France.<\/p>\n<p>Aim\u00e9-Benjamin Fleuriau, ex\u2013r\u00e9sident blanc de Saint-Domingue, au lieu d&#8217;abandonner le colonialisme apr\u00e8s son retour \u00e0 La Rochelle, a rapport\u00e9 avec lui certaines des complications coloniales. Cinq des enfants m\u00e9tisses qu&#8217;il a eus avec son ancienne esclave Jeanne sont arriv\u00e9s avec lui, ou peu apr\u00e8s. L&#8217;existence m\u00eame de cette famille a compliqu\u00e9 le lien \u00e9vident entre la n\u00e9gritude et l&#8217;esclavage. Pour le planteur et ses enfants les liens familiaux ont inform\u00e9 leur mani\u00e8re d&#8217;assumer leur race et leur position sociale. Au milieu de la parano\u00efa raciale croissante en France au dixhuiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle et la l\u00e9gislation qui r\u00e9glementait tous gens de couleur, Fleuriau et sa fille Marie-Jeanne ont privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 les liens familiaux plut\u00f4t que raciaux afin de cr\u00e9er une position d&#8217;autonomie dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise, bien que par des moyens et pour des raisons tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rents. Ils ont ainsi fa\u00e7onn\u00e9 la cat\u00e9gorie \u00ab famille \u00bb en France.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/fhs.dukejournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/33\/3\/357\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215\/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aim\u00e9-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,414,459,8],"tags":[3828,96,3831,1732,3827],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-family","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-aime-benjamin-fleuriau","tag-france","tag-french-historical-studies","tag-jennifer-l-palmer","tag-jennifer-palmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","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=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}