The strange history of the American quadroon : free women of color in the revolutionary Atlantic world / Emily Clark.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1469607530
- 9781469607535
- 9781469608051
- 1469608057
- Racially mixed women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century
- New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 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
- Louisiana -- New Orleans
- 1800-1899
- 305.0890509763/35 23
- HQ1439.N65 C53 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans were as likely to marry in the 1820s as white women. And marriage, not concubinage, was the basis of their family structure. In The Strange History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and memory, she presents a dramatically new and nuanced understanding of the myths and realities of New Orleans's free women of color.
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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