American Routes - Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race

American Routes provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years.

List of contents

• List of Charts and Figures


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Racial Systems and the Racial Palimpsest


• Chapter 2: St. Domingue as Training Ground: Color, Class, and Social Life Before Louisiana


• Chapter 3: White St. Domingue Refugees and White Creoles in Nineteenth Century Louisiana


• Chapter 4: St. Domingue Refugees and Creoles of Color


• Chapter 5: Twenty-first Century Remnants of a White Creole Past


• Chapter 6: Into the Twenty-First Century: Creoles of Color Finding Their Way


• Chapter 7: Conclusions: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of U.S. American Regions


• Appendix


• Notes


• References


• Index

About the author

Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University.

Summary

American Routes provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years.

Product details

• Authors: Angel Adams Parham, Angel (Associate Professor of Sociol Adams Parham, Angel (Associate Professor of Sociology Adams Parham, Adams Parham Angel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780190624750
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062475-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples