scholarly journals Public Slavery, Racial Formation, and the Struggle over Honor in French New Orleans, 1718-1769

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Slave System ◽  
White Population ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
The Way ◽  
French Regime

In New Orleans throughout the French Regime (1718-1769), ruling authorities did not only shape the slave system through the way they exercised their political and administrative prerogatives and functions, but were directly involved as slaveholders. Public slavery facilitated the emergence of New Orleans and Lower Louisiana society as a slave society, and was not necessarily incompatible with racial prejudice and discrimination. On the contrary, it fueled the construction of race. At the same time, it made visible the fact that honor did not only define the boundary between the free and the non-free and the identity of the white population.

“A Scandalous Commerce”

2019 ◽  
pp. 244-284
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Slave System ◽  
Moral Ideal ◽  
Common View ◽  
The Family ◽  
Racial Domination ◽  
The Common

This chapter explores how the slave system weakened the European religious and moral ideal that restricted sexuality and the family to Christian marriage in French New Orleans. Yet, it challenges the common view according to which the prevalence of métissage was the sign of a lenient racial regime. Sexual relationships across the racial line did not undermine racial formation; on the contrary, they contributed to reinforcing the system of racial domination. Rather than a general moral and religious disorder, what developed was a plural set of sexual and family values and practices that differed according to status, gender, and race.

A Port City of the French Empire and the Greater Caribbean

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-93
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Port City ◽  
French Empire ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Saint Domingue ◽  
The Way ◽  
Racial Slavery

This chapter argues that racial formation did not take place in French New Orleans in isolation from the rest of the Atlantic world and that imperial rather than trans-imperial relationships were the most influential in shaping the way the local society developed. Within the imperial framework, connections between the colony and the metropole were increasingly replaced by intercolonial exchanges. Saint-Domingue, in particular, was a model to be emulated. What gave New Orleans its Caribbean character was, not its participation in smuggling, but racial slavery.

From Louisiana to Saint-Domingue and from Saint-Domingue to Louisiana

2019 ◽  
pp. 498-514
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
National History ◽  
Atlantic Studies ◽  
Saint Domingue ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean

The conclusion explains how this book, by reconsidering the interplay of slavery and race in French New Orleans under the influence of Saint-Domingue, has proposed an alternative way of understanding how an urban slave society operated and what it meant for a slave society to become racialized. It has also tried to better fulfill the promises of Atlantic history. Like other kinds of transnational history, Atlantic studies were conceived of as a way to move away from the primacy of the present-day nation state as a unit of analysis and from the tendency toward exceptionalism inherent to national history, but this historiographical field has not yet succeeded in fully escaping from a North-American-centric perspective. At stake is the recovery of the place the Caribbean occupied within the early Atlantic world as well as the development of a comparative and connected history of racial formation as a sociopolitical process in the Americas.

scholarly journals Evaluating Validity Properties of 25 Race-Related Scales

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Hester ◽  
Jordan Axt ◽  
Eric Hehman
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Scale Selection ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
Latent Constructs ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

Racial attitudes, beliefs, and motivations lie at the center of many of the most influential theories of prejudice and discrimination. The extent to which such theories can meaningfully explain behavior hinges on accurate measurement of these latent constructs. We evaluated the validity properties of 25 race-related scales in a sample of 1,031,207 respondents using modern approaches such as dynamic fit indices, Item Response Theory, and nomological nets. Despite showing adequate internal reliability, many scales demonstrated poor model fit and had latent score distributions showing clear floor or ceiling effects, results that illustrate deficiencies in measures’ ability to capture their intended construct. Nomological nets further suggested that the theoretical space of “racial prejudice” is crowded with scales that may not actually capture meaningfully distinct latent constructs. We provide concrete recommendations for scale selection and renovation and outline implications for overlooking measurement issues in the study of prejudice and discrimination.

Multiracial People, Their Children, and Racism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miri Song
Keyword(s):  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Racial Awareness ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Coping

Will the children of multiracial people be subject to forms of racial prejudice and discrimination? How do parents teach their children about the realities of race and prepare them to deal with potential forms of discrimination and denigration? Existing studies of mixed people in Britain rarely explicitly address their experiences of racial stigmatization or denigration, and even less is known about how they, as parents, regard the racialized experiences of their children. In this chapter, I examine how multiracial participants’ own experiences of racism (or lack thereof) influence their expectations and concerns about how their own children are treated in the wider society. This chapter also documents the ways in which parents foster racial awareness and coping.

The City with Imaginary Walls

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-142
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
European Descent ◽  
The World ◽  
Civic Community ◽  
The City

This chapter shows that racial formation was also shaped by the relationships French New Orleans maintained with its hinterland. Racial tensions were instrumental in developing a sense of collective belonging among urban dwellers of European descent that was defined in confrontation with the world beyond the city’s imaginary walls. The Natchez Wars in 1729–1731 and slave unrest afterward played a crucial role in the construction of the Louisiana capital as a white civic community. In contrast, for the slaves living on the plantations nearby, the urban center increasingly symbolized both a place of greater autonomy and a place of repression.

Fifteen Years After Katrina: Paving the Way for Health Care Transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (10) ◽  
pp. 1472-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelina Davis ◽  
Alexander Billioux ◽  
Jennifer L. Avegno ◽  
Tiffany Netters ◽  
Gerrelda Davis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Primary Care Access ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Public And Private Stakeholders ◽  
Health Care Transformation ◽  
The Way

Following the devastation of the Greater New Orleans, Louisiana, region by Hurricane Katrina, 25 nonprofit health care organizations in partnership with public and private stakeholders worked to build a community-based primary care and behavioral health network. The work was made possible in large part by a $100 million federal award, the Primary Care Access Stabilization Grant, which paved the way for innovative and sustained public health and health care transformation across the Greater New Orleans area and the state of Louisiana.

Escaping slavery in a Caribbean plantation society : marronage in Barbados, 1650s-1830s

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 183-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome S. Handler
Keyword(s):  
White Population ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
Plantation Society

Disputes the idea that Barbados was too small for slaves to run away. Author describes how slaves in Barbados escaped the plantations despite the constraints of a relatively numerous white population, an organized militia, repressive laws, and deforestation. Concludes that slave flight was an enduring element of Barbadian slave society from the 17th c. to emancipation.

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