Title: Louisiana beyond black and white : new interpretations of twentieth-century race and race relations /
Authors: Martin, Michael S., 1972-
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: African Americans Louisiana History; Louisiana Race relations; Louisiana Social conditions
Abstract: "Louisiana Beyond Black and White brings together the most up-to-date essays by historians studying the related concepts of race and race relations in the state. The essays expand upon a variety of the major historical themes, notably Louisiana's multi-tiered racial structure and contingent understandings of race, the interplay of race and religion, the effects of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, the role of women and intellectuals in the black freedom movement, and the continuing struggles for economic and social rights after the end of the traditional civil rights era."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Ethnicity and Jim Crow : the Americanization of Louisiana's Creoles / Susan E. Dollar -- Calumny in the house of the lord : the 1932 Zion Traveler Church shooting / Thomas Aiello -- Separate but sinful : the desegregation of Louisiana Catholicism, 1938-1962 / Justin Poché -- Progressives and conservatives? : Louisiana's bifactional politics and massive resistance / John Kyle Day -- Race, Cold War, and academia : Medford Evans of Northwestern State College, 1955-1959 / Charles J. Pellegrin -- Lost, stolen and strayed : Marcus Christian's crusade against segregationist history / Michael G. Wade -- A dissenting tradition : Louisiana women and the black struggle for equality, 1924-1968 / Shannon Frystak -- From votes to vegetables : civil rights activism and the low-income cooperative movement in Louisiana after 1965 / Greta de Jong -- Epilogue : Katrina and the social construction of race in New Orleans / Shannon Frystak.