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Bounded Lives Bounded Places
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Author : Kimberly S. Hanger
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1997-03-13
Bounded Lives Bounded Places written by Kimberly S. Hanger and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-13 with History categories.
Examines Louisiana's history during the Spanish colonial period of the late eighteenth century, describing economic, political, and military conditions, along with the social conditions and rights granted to the antebellum population of freed slaves that lived in New Orleans under Spanish rule.
Bounded Lives Bounded Places
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language : en
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Release Date : 2009
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DIVDuring Louisiana & rsquo;s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favor the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places, Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans & rsquo; large, influential, and propertied free black & mdash;or libre & mdash;population, one that was unique in the South. Hanger examines the issues libres confronted as they individually and collectively contested their ambiguous status in a complexly stratified society. Drawing on rare archives in Louisiana and Spain, Hanger reconstructs the world of late-eighteenth-century New Orleans from the perspective of its free black residents, and documents the common experiences and enterprises that helped solidify libres & rsquo; sense of group identity. Over the course of three and a half decades of Spanish rule, free people of African descent in New Orleans made their greatest advances in terms of legal rights and privileges, demographic expansion, vocational responsibilities, and social standing. Although not all blacks in Spanish New Orleans yearned for expanded opportunity, Hanger shows that those who did were more likely to succeed under Spain & rsquo;s dominion than under the governance of France, Great Britain, or the United States. The advent of U.S. rule brought restrictions to both manumission and free black activities in New Orleans. Nonetheless, the colonial libre population became the foundation for the city & rsquo;s prosperous and much acclaimed Creoles of Color during the antebellum era. /div
Bounded Lives Bounded Places
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Author : Kimberly S. Hanger
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1997-03-13
Bounded Lives Bounded Places written by Kimberly S. Hanger and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-13 with History categories.
During Louisiana’s Spanish colonial period, economic, political, and military conditions combined with local cultural and legal traditions to favor the growth and development of a substantial group of free blacks. In Bounded Lives, Bounded Places, Kimberly S. Hanger explores the origin of antebellum New Orleans’ large, influential, and propertied free black—or libre—population, one that was unique in the South. Hanger examines the issues libres confronted as they individually and collectively contested their ambiguous status in a complexly stratified society. Drawing on rare archives in Louisiana and Spain, Hanger reconstructs the world of late-eighteenth-century New Orleans from the perspective of its free black residents, and documents the common experiences and enterprises that helped solidify libres’ sense of group identity. Over the course of three and a half decades of Spanish rule, free people of African descent in New Orleans made their greatest advances in terms of legal rights and privileges, demographic expansion, vocational responsibilities, and social standing. Although not all blacks in Spanish New Orleans yearned for expanded opportunity, Hanger shows that those who did were more likely to succeed under Spain’s dominion than under the governance of France, Great Britain, or the United States. The advent of U.S. rule brought restrictions to both manumission and free black activities in New Orleans. Nonetheless, the colonial libre population became the foundation for the city’s prosperous and much acclaimed Creoles of Color during the antebellum era.
Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies
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Author : Ming Xu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-11-07
Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies written by Ming Xu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-07 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2007, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2007. The 78 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 346 submissions. All current aspects in parallel and distributed computing are addressed ranging from hardware and software issues to algorithmic aspects and advanced applications. The papers are organized in topical sections.
Race Nation And Religion In The Americas
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Author : Henry Goldschmidt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-12
Race Nation And Religion In The Americas written by Henry Goldschmidt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-12 with Social Science categories.
A collection of new essays exploring the complex and unstable articulations of race and religion. Drawing on original research, the authors investigate how race and religion have defined global relations, shaped the everyday lives of individuals and communities and how communities use religion to contest the power of racism.
One Drop
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Author : Bliss Broyard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2007-09-27
One Drop written by Bliss Broyard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life. Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920, Anatole had begun to conceal his racial identity after his family moved to Brooklyn and his parents resorted to "passing" in order to get work. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the favßade. Now his daughter Bliss tries to make sense of his choices. Seeking out unknown relatives in New York, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, Bliss uncovers the 250-year history of her family in America and chronicles her own evolution from privilged WASP to a woman of mixed-race ancestry.
Slavery And African Ethnicities In The Americas
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Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005
Slavery And African Ethnicities In The Americas written by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.
Explores the persistence of African ethnic identity among the enslaved in North America, the Caribbean, and South America over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Investigates such issues as who profited from the Atlantic slave trade, how Africans were defined and named by slave traders, and how the enslaved identified themselves. Traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans.
The Accidental City
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Author : Lawrence N. Powell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-13
The Accidental City written by Lawrence N. Powell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-13 with History categories.
Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.
Louisiana
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Author : Bennett H. Wall
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-01-28
Louisiana written by Bennett H. Wall and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-28 with History categories.
Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state. Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the market Compiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveries Includes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spill Considers the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a whole Written in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps
Plessy V Ferguson
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Author : Thomas J. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-07-19
Plessy V Ferguson written by Thomas J. Davis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with Law categories.
More than the story of one man's case, this book tells the story of entire generations of people marked as "mixed race" in America amid slavery and its aftermath, and being officially denied their multicultural identity and personal rights as a result. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Plessy v. Ferguson was not a simple case of black vs. white separation, but rather a challenging and complex protest for U.S. law to fully accept mixed ancestry and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the long struggle for individual identity and multicultural recognition amid the dehumanizing and depersonalizing forces of African American slavery-and the Anglo-American white supremacy that drove it. The book takes students and general readers through the extended gestation period that gave birth to one of the most oft-mentioned but widely misunderstood landmark law cases in U.S. history. It provides a chronology, brief biographies of key figures, primary documents, an annotated bibliography, and an index all of which provide easy reading and quick reference. Modern readers will find the direct connections between Plessy's story and contemporary racial currents in America intriguing.