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The great Southern Babylon : sex, race, and respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 / Alecia P. Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Alecia P., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Prostitution.
- Sex industry--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Sex industry.
- Sex customs--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Sex customs.
- Women--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.
- Women.
- African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.
- African Americans.
- Social status.
- History.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory).
- Social conditions.
- New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Miscegenation (Racist theory)--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
- New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.
- Social status--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- Race relations.
- Social history.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Louisiana paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- With a well-earned reputation for tolerance of both prostitution and miscegenation, New Orleans became known as the Great Southern Babylon in antebellum times. Following the Civil War, a profound alteration in social and economic conditions gradually reshaped the city's sexual culture and erotic commerce. Historian Alecia P. Long traces sex in the Crescent City over fifty years, drawing from Louisiana Supreme Court case testimony to relate intriguing tales of people both obscure and famous whose relationships and actions exemplify the era.
- Contents:
- "It's because you are a colored woman" : sex, race, and concubinage after the Civil War
- The business of pleasure : concert saloons and sexual commerce in the economic mainstream
- "Where the least harm can result" : sex, race, and respectability in a single neighborhood
- "Unusual situations and remarkable people" : Mary Deubler, respectability, and the history of Storyville
- "As rare as white blackbirds" : Willie Piazza, race, and reform in Storyville.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807131121
- 9780807131121
- OCLC:
- 62138978
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