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This topic covers the issue of the new ideology of Interacialism and its effect on the black family.
Interracialism's Effect on the Black Family by Psychoanalyst K. Alonzo Hart.
A study of slave records by the Freedmen's Bureau of 2,888 slave marriages in Mississippi (1,225), Tennessee (1,123) and Louisiana (540), revealled that over 32 per cent of marriages were dissolved by masters as a result of slaves being sold away from the family home.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASseparation.htm
Creoles
of the
Dominican Republic
http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/dominican%20republic/dominicancreoles.htm
As blacks and whites came to share a culture, members of this growing mulatto presence began to live a more normal life, partly because there were more and more mulatto women to go around. White men took mulatto wives because they were readily available.
Mulatto women themselves were usually open to white lovers, thinking that this would lighten their children and thus improve their lives. Black males also wanted mulatto women, to lighten the color of their own children.
Mulattos continued to rise in Caribbean society until about the late 18th century, when whites began to fear their emerging power and numbers. In many countries, including Jamaica and Haiti, whites passed strict racial laws placing limits on what mulattos could inherit and the amount of property or slaves they could own, and even banning mulattos from certain professions.
The most absurd and ridiculous of these racial laws were adopted by the French colonies, especially Haiti, which attempted to categorize people by fractions of blood, down to a dozen subclassifications.
But even British Jamaican law had its racial absurdities, defining class, privilege, and legal entitlement strictly by blood. The Dominican Republic never had strict racial laws on the French model, though its traditions remain distinctly Creole, giving credence to racial categorization in subtle and influential ways.
Throughout the Caribbean, the goal of many mulattos was to move their descendants upward through the racial social scale by making white offspring. This constant seeking by many mulatto women for white heirs sank many inheritance laws into a quagmire, because many children were born out of wedlock.
Some colonies like Cuba and Suriname had administrative boards that decided who could marry whom and under what conditions, granting or refusing marriage to interracial couples in the hope that the race would lighten as it went along.
Perhaps the most infamous of all “race whiteners” was Rafael Trujillo, who was notorious for using pancake makeup. He was just a shade too dark for his own taste and in his later years would chase away photographers when his makeup began to crack under hot lights or midday heat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cw2Iya117M
A study of slave records by the Freedmen's Bureau of 2,888 slave marriages in Mississippi (1,225), Tennessee (1,123) and Louisiana (540), revealled that over 32 per cent of marriages were dissolved by masters as a result of slaves being sold away from the family home.
http://www.spartacus.schoo
Creoles
of the
Dominican Republic
http://www.frenchcreoles.c
As blacks and whites came to share a culture, members of this growing mulatto presence began to live a more normal life, partly because there were more and more mulatto women to go around. White men took mulatto wives because they were readily available.
Mulatto women themselves were usually open to white lovers, thinking that this would lighten their children and thus improve their lives. Black males also wanted mulatto women, to lighten the color of their own children.
Mulattos continued to rise in Caribbean society until about the late 18th century, when whites began to fear their emerging power and numbers. In many countries, including Jamaica and Haiti, whites passed strict racial laws placing limits on what mulattos could inherit and the amount of property or slaves they could own, and even banning mulattos from certain professions.
The most absurd and ridiculous of these racial laws were adopted by the French colonies, especially Haiti, which attempted to categorize people by fractions of blood, down to a dozen subclassifications.
But even British Jamaican law had its racial absurdities, defining class, privilege, and legal entitlement strictly by blood. The Dominican Republic never had strict racial laws on the French model, though its traditions remain distinctly Creole, giving credence to racial categorization in subtle and influential ways.
Throughout the Caribbean, the goal of many mulattos was to move their descendants upward through the racial social scale by making white offspring. This constant seeking by many mulatto women for white heirs sank many inheritance laws into a quagmire, because many children were born out of wedlock.
Some colonies like Cuba and Suriname had administrative boards that decided who could marry whom and under what conditions, granting or refusing marriage to interracial couples in the hope that the race would lighten as it went along.
Perhaps the most infamous of all “race whiteners” was Rafael Trujillo, who was notorious for using pancake makeup. He was just a shade too dark for his own taste and in his later years would chase away photographers when his makeup began to crack under hot lights or midday heat.
http://www.youtube.com/wat
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