American routes : racial palimpsests and the transformation of race / Angel Adams Parham
- Author:
- Parham, Angel Adams
- Published:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Racial Systems and the Racial Palimpsest -- 2.St. Domingue as Training Ground: Color, Class, and Social Life Before Louisiana -- 3.White St. Domingue Refugees and White Creoles in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana -- 4.St. Domingue Refugees and Creoles of Color -- 5.Twenty-First Century Remnants of a White Creole Past -- 6.Into the Twenty-First Century: Creoles of Color Finding Their Way -- 7.Conclusions: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of US American Regions.
- Summary:
- 'American Routes' provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from 19th century St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of 200 years.
- Subject(s):
- Creoles—Louisiana—Race identity
- Haitian Americans—Louisiana—History—19th century
- Racially mixed people—Race identity—Louisiana
- Refugees—Louisiana—History
- Refugees—Haiti—History
- Haitians—Migrations—History
- African Americans—Louisiana—History
- White people—Race identity—Louisiana
- African Americans—Race identity—Louisiana
- Haiti—History—Revolution, 1791-1804—Refugees
- ISBN:
- 9780190624781 (ebook)
- Audience Notes:
- Specialized.
- Note:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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