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plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in which white French and Spanish and later Creole men entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages with women of African, Indian and white (European) Creole descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning “to place with”. The women were not legally recognized as wives, but were known as placées; their relationships were recognized among the free people of color as mariages de la main gauche or left-handed marriages. Many were often quarteronnes or quadroons, the offspring of a European and a mulatto, but plaçage did occur between whites and mulattoes and blacks. The system flourished throughout the French and Spanish colonial periods, and apparently reached its zenith during the latter, between 1769 and 1803. It was not limited to Louisiana, but also flourished in the cities of Natchez and Biloxi, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama; St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida; as well as Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti). Plaçage, however, drew most of its fame—and notoriety—from its open application in New Orleans. Despite the prevalence of interracial encounters in the colony, not all Creole women of color were or became placées…

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Hapa Hoops: Japanese American Basketball and Community with Rex Walters

Posted in Asian Diaspora, Live Events, Media Archive, United States on 2013-06-21 01:36Z by Steven

Hapa Hoops: Japanese American Basketball and Community with Rex Walters

Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, California, 90012
Saturday, 2013-06-22, 14:00 PDT (Local Time)

Join us as we explore the experiences of Hapa Japanese Americans and their experiences in Japanese American basketball leagues. Hapa Hoops will feature a screening of JANM’s basketball documentary Crossover and will be followed by a conversation by Rex Walters, a veteran of both Japanese American basketball leagues and the NBA.

In conjunction with the exhibition Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History

For more information, click here.

Tags: basketball, Japanese American National Museum, Rex Walters, sports

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