- In the
colonial societies of the
Americas and Australia, a
quadroon or
quarteron (in the
United Kingdom, the term quarter-caste is used) was a
person with...
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formalized form of plaçage as well as the
famous quadroon balls to New Orleans.
Monique Guillory writes about quadroon balls that took
place in New Orleans, the...
- "The
Quadroons" is a
short story written by
American writer Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) and
published in The
Liberty Bell in 1842. The
influential short...
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woman of
mixed European and
African ancestry would attend dances known as "
quadroon balls" to meet
white gentlemen willing to
provide for her and any children...
- Coloured, Dougla, half-caste, ʻafakasi, mulatto, mestizo, mutt, Melungeon,
quadroon, octoroon, griffe, sacatra, sambo/zambo, Eurasian, hapa, hāfu, Garifuna...
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painting depicts a
black grandmother,
mulatta mother,
white father and
their quadroon child,
hence three generations of
racial hypergamy through whitening....
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Mixed Dominicans, also
referred to as mulatto,
mestizo or
historically quadroon, are
Dominicans who are of
mixed racial ancestry.
Dominican Republic has...
- po****tions of
mixed racial origin (including Mulatto-Creole, Dougla, Mestizo,
Quadroon, Cholo, Castizo, Criollo, Zambo, Pardo,
Asian Latin Americans, Chindian...
- Both were anti-slavery works.
Boucicault adapted the play from the
novel Quadroon (1856) by
Thomas Mayne Reid. It
explores the
lives of free whites, and...
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French forces during the
First and
Second Franco-Dahomean War. As both a
quadroon and Métis, he was
famed in the
African diaspora at the
beginning of the...
