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Négresses libres and the Republic

One of the many prominent Louisiana Creoles to resettle at the nascent Attakapas District was Jacques Bénigne FONTENETTE fils, known in the SpanishRead More

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Filed Under: Catholic Sacramental Records, Descriptors, Free People of Color (FPOC), Genealogy, History, Law, Migrations, Old Maps, Slavery Tagged With: André Fontenette, Caroline Hortance Fontenette, Éloïse Fontenette, free people of color, g.d.c.l., gdcl, Gens de couleur libres, Honoré Dartès, Jacques Fontenette, Marie-Louise Fontenette, Marie-Louise Julie, Maurice Abat, mulâtre, mulâtres libres, mulâtresse, Nanette Fontenette, négresse, négresse libre, Pétion Fontenette, Philippe Wiltz, Pierrot Fontenette, Santiago Fontenette, Slavery in Louisiana, Zénon Fontenette

Physical descriptors

“What he look like?” We’ve all heard this question in some way in the US in the 20th and 21st centuries. Usually, folksRead More

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Filed Under: Descriptors, Language Tagged With: admixture, Alek Wek, bay, blan, blood quantum, Channing Tatum, David Luíz, Dean Baquet, Denise Boutté, Désirée Glapion Rogers, Djimon Hounsou, Elle de Génères, Gabrielle Union, Genuwine, grif, griffe, human races, Jimmy Graham, katron, katronn, Latin descriptors, Latin Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisiana Creole, Marie Thérèse Carmélite Anty, milat, milatrès, Mitch Landrieu, mulâtre, mulâtresse, nèg, nègre, négrès, négresse, Physical descriptors, quarteron, quarteronne, Racialization, Shawanda Lewis, Valerie Jarrett

Louisiana Myths: The Octoroon

On 20 December 2010, I rather haphazardly chimed in on a segment of NPR (National Public Radio) News called How Multi-Ethnic People IdentifyRead More

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Filed Under: Clichés, Descriptors, History, Identity Tagged With: Adéline Swayze, Arthur Pellerin, Aspasie Broussard, carteron, carteronne, couleur libre, cuarterón, cuarterona, de couleur libre, Ernest St. Julien, femme de couleur libre, fille de couleur libre, Francisco Caso y Luengo, Françoise Elvina Pinta, gens de couleur, grif, grifa, griffe, griffon, griffonne, grifo, homme de couleur libre, india, indo, Irène Caso y Luengo, Joseph Fortuné de Penne, Louisiana octoroons, Louisiana quadroons, Marie Thérèse Carmélite Anty, mestiza, mestizo, métif, métis, métisse, métive, mulata, mulato, mulâtre, mulâtresse, nègre, nègre griffe, négresse, négresse griffe, Numa Julien, Octoroons, Pearl Broussard, Quadroons, quarteron, quarteronne, quarteronnée, quateronné, quateronnée, tierceron, Victoire Lemelle

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