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Convocation – “Mutable Identities: The Performance of ‘Whiteness’ in a Colonial Louisiana Portrait”
Convocation – “Mutable Identities: The Performance of ‘Whiteness’ in a Colonial Louisiana Portrait”
Wendy Castenell The portrait of Marianne Célèste Dragon (c. 1796), attributed to an artist from the School of Jose de Salazar calls into question many preconceived assumptions about the role of people of African descent in Louisiana in particular, and early American history in general. In this paper, I will use Dragon’s portrait to