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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Clark, Emily, 1954- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2013.
Sujets:
1800-1899
Racially mixed women > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.
Sex symbolism.
Métisses > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Symbolisme sexuel.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Racially mixed women
Sex symbolism
Social conditions
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Louisiana > New Orleans
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Evolution of a color term and an American city's alienation
  • The Philadelphia quadroon
  • From Ménagère to Placée
  • 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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