Louisiana beyond black and white
Subtitle: new interpretations of twentieth-century race and race relations
By: edited by Michael S. Martin ; foreword by Adam Fairclough
Publisher: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lafeyette
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781935754046
Subjects: African Americans; History; Race relations; Social conditions
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnicity and Jim Crow : the Americanization of Louisiana's Creoles / Susan Dollar; title: Calumny in the house of the lord : the 1932 Zion Traveler Church shooting / Thomas Aiello; title: Separate but sinful : the desegregation of Louisiana Catholicism, 1938-1962 / Justin Poch; title: Progressives and conservatives? : Louisiana's bifactionalism and massive resistance / John Kyle Day; title: Race, cold war, and academia : Medford Evans of Northwestern State College, 1955-1959; title: Charles Pellegrin; title: Lost, stolen and strayed : Marcus Christian's crusade against segregationist history / Michael Wade; title: A dissenting tradition : Louisiana women and the black struggle for equality, 1924-1968 / Shannon Frystak; title: From votes to vegetables : civil rights activism and the low-income cooperative movement in Louisiana after 1965 / Greta de Jong; title: Epilogue : Katrina and the social construction of race in New Orleans / Shannon Frystak.