The Strange History of the American Quadroon : Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World /

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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and...

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Autor principal: Clark, Emily, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Sex symbolism.
Racially mixed women.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Symbolisme sexuel.
Metisses > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Racially mixed women > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evolution of a color term and an American city's alienation
  • The Philadelphia quadroon
  • From Menagere to Placee
  • Con otros muchos : marriage
  • Bachelor patriarchs : life partnerships across the color line
  • Making up the quadroon
  • Selling the quadroon
  • Reimagining the quadroon.

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