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The great Southern Babylon

sex, race, and respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920

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An edition of The great Southern Babylon (2004)

The great Southern Babylon

sex, race, and respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920

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Louisiana State University Press
Language
English
Pages
282

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Subjects
Social life and customs, Race relations, Miscegenation, Prostitution, Women, Social status, Sex-oriented businesses, Social conditions, History, African Americans, Sex customs, New orleans (la.), history, New orleans (la.), social conditions, New orleans (la.), social life and customs, Sex-oriented business, Women, social conditions
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Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans (La.)

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Cover of: The Great Southern Babylon
The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, And Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920
September 2005, Louisiana State University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
306/.09763/35
Library of Congress
HQ146.N6 L66 2004

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Pagination
xv, 282 p. :
Number of pages
282

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3677829M
ISBN 10
0807129321
LCCN
2003017757
OCLC/WorldCat
52902556
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630229
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4428461

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