Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Joan M Greenbaum Readers will discover a wealth

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Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Joan M Greenbaum Readers will discover a wealthA microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city's construction of race during the eighteenth and early nineteenth enturies. Spear brings together archival evidence from three different languages and the most