The great Southern Babylon
Subtitle: sex, race, and respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920
By: Alecia P. Long.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Prostitution -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.; Sex-oriented businesses -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.; Sex customs -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.; Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions.; African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions.; Miscegenation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.; Social status -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.; New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.; New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs.; New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: It's because you are a colored woman : sex, race, and concubinage after the Civil War; title: The business of pleasure : concert saloons and sexual commerce in the economic mainstream; title: Where the least harm can result : sex, race, and respectability in a single neighborhood; title: Unusual situations and remarkable people : Mary Deubler, respectability, and the history of Storyville; title: As rare as white blackbirds : Willie Piazza, race, and reform in Storyville.