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Race, sex, and social order in early New Orleans / Jennifer M. Spear.
Van Pelt Library HN80.N45 S64 2008
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spear, Jennifer M., 1967-
- Series:
- Early America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial people.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
- Multiracial people--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.
- Multiracial people--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Indian women, French women, and the regulation of sex
- Legislating slavery in French New Orleans
- Affranchis and sang-mêlé
- Slavery and freedom in Spanish New Orleans
- Limpieza de sangre and family formation
- Negotiating racial identities in the 1790s
- Codification of a tripartite racial system in Anglo-Louisiana.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801886805
- 0801886805
- OCLC:
- 232656447
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