Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The title of this French colonial postcard (GUADELOUPE. - Type n° 7) exemplifies the standard naming structure that ...
In its earliest usage in colonial Louisiana, Creole — créole in French or criollo in Spanish — referred to any person born in the Americas of European or African ancestry. Over time, that geographic ...
Black women’s hair has always been a civil rights issue. Anti-Black hair sentiment in the US reaches back to the 18th century when, for example, free Creole women of color in New Orleans wore coifs ...
People of color in Louisiana / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Marcus Christian's treatment of Les gens de couleur libre / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Plaçage and the Louisiana Gens de couleur libre : how ...
As the first Catholic pope from the United States, Pope Leo XIV has an ancestry that traces back to the Creole and free people of color from Louisiana, illustrating complex and interconnected issues ...