TY - BOOK ID - 77921796 TI - The strange history of the American quadroon PY - 2013 SN - 1469608057 1469607530 9781469607535 9781469608051 9781469607528 1469607522 1469622068 PB - Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Sex symbolism. KW - Racially-mixed women KW - Erotic symbolism KW - Symbolism KW - Mulattas KW - Racially mixed people KW - Women KW - History KW - New Orleans (La.) KW - Big Easy (La.) KW - Crescent City (La.) KW - La Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) KW - NOLA (La.) KW - Nawlins (La.) KW - Neu Orleans (La.) KW - Nieuw Orleans (La.) KW - Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) KW - Neuva Orleans (La.) KW - Nueva Orleans (La.) KW - Nuova Orleans (La.) KW - City of New Orleans (La.) KW - Cité d'Orléans (La.) KW - Orleans Parish (La.) KW - Social conditions KW - Racially mixed women KW - Multiracial women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77921796 AB - Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a ""quadroon,"" she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans were as likely to marry in the 1820s as white women. And marriage, not concubinage, was the basis of their family structure. In The Strange Hi ER -