Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Racial systems and the racial palimpsest
  • St. Domingue as training ground: color, class, and social life before Louisiana
  • White St. Domingue refugees and White Creoles in nineteenth century Louisiana
  • St. Domingue refugees and Creoles of color
  • Twenty-first century remnants of a White Creole past
  • Into the twenty-first century: Creoles of color finding their way
  • Conclusions: racial palimpsests and the transformation of U.S. American regions
  • Appendix.