Making Race in the Courtroom : the Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans.
No American city's history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America's most privileged community of people of African descent. In t...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | No American city's history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America's most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans's free people of color did not belong to the same race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were "negroes," free people of color were gens de couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New Orleans's creoles of color remained legally and culturally d |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814724866 0814724868 9780814724972 0814724973 |