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Race, sex, and social order in early New Orleans / Jennifer M. Spear.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spear, Jennifer M., 1967-
- Series:
- Early America.
- Early America : history, context, culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial people--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.
- Multiracial people.
- Multiracial people--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Indian women, French women, and the regulation of sex
- Legislating slavery in French New Orleans
- Affranchis and sang-mele
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9878-1
- OCLC:
- 608680224
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