14 Citations
Spatial Organization as Management Practice at L’Hermitage Plantation
- HistoryJournal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage
- 2022
ABSTRACT Excavations at the site of a former plantation, L’Hermitage, on the grounds of the Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland, revealed substantial evidence of domestic structures…
“Is God Still French?”: Racecraft, States of Exception, and the Creation of l'Exception Française
- HistoryPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
- 2022
CHRISTY PICHICHERO (she/her) is associate professor of French and history at George Mason University, where she also serves as the director of faculty diversity in the College of Humanities and…
The Life and Legacy of Marie Couvent: Social Networks, Property Ownership, and the Making of a Free People of Color Community in New Orleans.
- History
- 2015
This dissertation recovers the life of Marie Justine Sirnir Couvent and the Atlantic World she inhabited. Born in Africa around 1757, she was enslaved as a child and shipped to Saint-Domingue through…
Living in Limb/o: Reading Dismemberment and Orphanhood in Contemporary Spanish Caribbean Literature
- Art
- 2014
of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Chrissy Arce. No. of pages in text. (262) Seeking alternative metaphors for understanding the Caribbean experience…
Scandal of Colonial Rule: “Only answerable to God and conscience”: justice unbounded by law
- History, Political Science
- 2012
Having in the preceding chapter mapped the world forces within which William Fullarton set his career, we tighten our focus to reveal how empire was defined on the ground in Trinidad, particularly…
Les ombres noires de Saint Domingue: The Impact of Black Women on Gender and Racial Boundaries in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
- History
- 2010
Author(s): Mitchell, Robin | Advisor(s): Stovall, Tyler | Abstract: AbstractLes ombres noires de Saint Domingue: The Impact of Black Women on Gender a Racial Boundaries in Eighteenth- and…
Unheralded contributions across the Atlantic world
- Art
- 2008
Abstract Despite the numerous books and articles on the topic of Creole architecture, no previous work has attempted to explore the interrelationships between historical creolization in traditions of…
Louisiana Identity On Trial: The Superior Court Case Of Pierre Benonime Dormenon, 1790-1812
- History
- 2007
Creole Architecture: A Comparative Analysis of Upper and Lower Louisiana and Saint Domingue
- Art
- 2006
What factors accounted for variations in architectural traditions in the French colonial settlements of the New World? This paper tests several of the propositions of culture theory against what is…