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Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Jennifer M. Spear
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Description for Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Strikingly argued, richly researched, and methodologically sound, this wide-ranging look at how choices about sex triumphed over established class systems and artificial racial boundaries supplies a refreshing contribution to the history of early Louisiana. Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city's construction of race during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Spear brings together archival evidence from three different languages and the most recent and respected scholarship on racial formation and interracial sex to explain why free people of color became a significant population in the early days of New Orleans and to show how authorities attempted to use ... Read more
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 Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city's construction of race during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Spear brings together archival evidence from three different languages and the most recent and respected scholarship on racial formation and interracial sex to explain why free people of color became a significant population in the early days of New Orleans and to show how authorities attempted to use ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Early America: History, Context, Culture
Number of Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801886805
SKU
V9780801886805
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About Jennifer M. Spear
Jennifer M. Spear is an assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University.
Reviews for Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans
Break[s] fresh analytical and methodological ground and respond[s] intelligently to alternative explanatory models pertaining to [its] respective subject. [It is a] significant contribution that will elicit scholarly engagement.
John David Smith Florida Historical Quarterly 2011
John David Smith Florida Historical Quarterly 2011