Race, sex, and social order in old New Orleans
By: Jennifer M. Spear.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780801886805
Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions; Racially mixed people -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History; New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions; New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations; New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : race, sex and social order in early America; title: Indian women, French women, and the regulation of sex; title: Legislating slavery in French New Orleans; title: Affranchis and sang mêlé : the Spanish era, 1769-1803; title: Slavery and freedom in Spanish New Orleans; title: Limpieza de sangre and family formation; title: Negotiating racial identities in the 1790s after the Louisiana Purchase; title: Codification of a tripartite racial system in Anglo-Louisiana.