Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans 1496822080, 9781496822086

Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory 9780822376354

Looking at competing representations of race in New Orleans tourism, Lynnell L. Thomas shows how declarations of racial

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Tremé: Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood 9780820335940, 9780820337609, 9780820335957

Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg Tremé neighborhood is arguably the most important location f

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Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans 9780807150160, 9780807150146, 9780807150153, 9780807150177, 2012034237

From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstandin

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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era 0199778809, 9780199778805

In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped se

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Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy 9780814733073

Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA’s Community and Urban Sociology Secti

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Down in Treme: Race, Place, and New Orleans on Television 3515121811, 9783515121811

Termed 'Hollywood South', New Orleans is the site of a burgeoning cultural economy of film and television prod

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American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age 9780812201765

A colorful social and cultural history of the often-overlooked independent radio stations of the 1920s, which played an

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Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class 9780520940697

As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classn

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Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans 9780814724972

No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the l

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Blue-chip Black: race, class, and status in the new Black middle class 9780520251168, 9780520940697, 9780520251151

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