Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans

by Jennifer M. Spear

Book Overview

Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association

A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes--poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality--New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer M. Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421415739
• ISBN13: 9781421415734
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher