{"id":5146,"date":"2003-12-30T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:19:08","slug":"louisiana-creoles-white-by-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/30\/louisiana-creoles-white-by-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Creoles:  White by Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is still the best overall book on Louisiana Creoles.  Dominguez is reasonably objective without an ax to grind. She also points out the tremendous psychological pressures that Creoles endure because the Jim Crow system forced them to share schools and other facilities with Anglo blacks who were determined to destroy Creole identity and incorporate Creole genes into the &#8220;black race.&#8221;  The self-hatred that the &#8220;black power&#8221; movement forced on the younger Creoles is incredible.  Her informants told her of boys who washed their straight hair with vinegar in order to &#8220;kink&#8221; it and create &#8220;Afros.&#8221;  They did this because black boys would harass or beat them.  I&#8217;ve also heard of this happening with non-Creoles of mixed ancestry. The Creoles have really been subjected to what Brent Kennedy would call an &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; by legal or cultural suppression (as opposed to physical murder).  What is even more incredible is that the most damage has been inflicted by a people (American &#8220;blacks&#8221;) who do not have a state, police or military, or any of the usual institutions of authority one would expect of a people powerful enough to suppress or claim ownership of another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0813520886\/themultiracialacA\/\">White by Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana<\/a><br \/>\nby Virginia Dominguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is still the best overall book on Louisiana Creoles. Dominguez is reasonably objective without an ax to grind. She also points out the tremendous psychological pressures that Creoles endure because the Jim Crow&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1l0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}