Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans, Paperback - James Gill

Reducere. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Sp...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Min Hee GoIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

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Reducere. New Orleans is practically synonymous with Mardi Gras. Both evoke the parades, the beads, the costumes, the food--the pomp and circumstance. The ca...

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Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Amy L. StoneIllustration(s): 22 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimension...

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A police detective who is also a celebrity food truck chef fights off allegations that he is furthermore a murderer, as terrorist attacks set in.

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It's said that New Orleans' "culture doesn't come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets." It is a proud city with interwoven stories of...

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Reducere. The move from spectator to participant is a quantum leap. Yet each Mardi Gras in New Orleans, thousands of people make it, abandoning inhibition an...

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Born during World War II, Marilee Eaves has long struggled to fit into the New Orleans elite--secret Mardi Gras societies that ruled the city--into...

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