Making Race in the Courtroom : : The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans / / Kenneth R. Aslakson.
No American city’s history better illustrates both thepossibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shapingracial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War washome to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. Inthe eyes of the...
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Aslakson, Kenneth R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Making Race in the Courtroom : The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans / Kenneth R. Aslakson. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The gulf and its city -- 2. A legal system in flux -- 3. “We shall serve with fidelity and zeal” -- 4. Outside the bonds of matrimony -- 5. Owning so as not to be owned -- 6. “When the question is slavery or freedom” -- Epilogue: from Adele to plessy -- Notes -- Index -- About the author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star No American city’s history better illustrates both thepossibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shapingracial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War washome to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. Inthe eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people of color did not belong to thesame race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were“negroes,” free people of color were gensde couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New Orleans’screoles of color remained legally and culturally distinct from “negroes”throughout most of the nineteenth century until state mandated segregationlumped together descendants of slaves with descendants of free people of color.Much of the recent scholarship on NewOrleans examines what race relations in theantebellum period looked as well as why antebellum Louisiana’s gens de couleur enjoyed rights andprivileges denied to free blacks throughout most of the United States. This book, however, is less concerned with the what and why questions than with how peopleof color, acting within institutions of power, shaped those institutions in ways beyondtheir control. As its title suggests, Making Race in the Courtroom argues that race is best understood notas a category, but as a process. It seeks to demonstrate the role offree people of African-descent, interacting within the courts, in this process. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Free African Americans Legal status, laws, etc History 19th century Louisiana. Free African Americans Legal status, laws, etc Louisiana History 19th century. Free African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. Louisiana History 19th century. Louisiana Purchase Social aspects. HISTORY / United States / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110728996 print 9780814724316 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814724972 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814724972/original |
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