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"Since 2004, the Baby Doll Mardi Gras tradition in New Orleans has gone from an obscure, almost forgotten practice to a flourishing cultural force. The original Baby Dolls were groups of black women, and some men, in the early Jim Crow era who adopted New Orleans street masking tradition as a u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Leathem, Karen Trahan (writer of foreword.), Vaz, Kim Marie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Carnival.
African Americans.
African American women.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Noires americaines > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Carnavals > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Carnival > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Walking Raddy; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; "I Know My Ancestors Are Happy" A Conversation with Merline Kimble; "True Doll Stories" A Conversation with Cinnamon Black; Claiming Their Own Mardi Gras; Fighting for Freedom Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond; Geographies of Pain, Geographies of Pleasure Black Women in Jim Crow New Orleans; Protectors of the Inheritance Black Women Writers of New Orleans; Black Women and Carnival Performance Traditions; Women Maskers Critics of Social Issues
  • Operationalizing "Baby" for Our Good A Critical Cultural Commentary on Early Twentieth-Century Songs about Women as Baby and Baby DollFrom the Bamboula to the Baby Dolls Improvisation, Agency, and African American Dancing in New Orleans; Is the Unruly Woman Masker Still Relevant?; Memoirs and Musings; How the Baby Dolls Became an Iconic Part of Mardi Gras; In Memory: Uncle Lionel Batiste (February 11, 1932-July 8, 2012) "Colorful in Life-Rich in Spirit"; Baby Doll Addendum and Mardi Gras '49; Dancing Women of New Orleans Mardi Gras Baby Dolls
  • Reinvention Miss Antoinette K-Doe and Her Baby DollsThe World That Antoinette K-Doe Made; Sass and Circumstance The Magic of the Baby Dolls; Visual Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls; John McCrady's "Southern Eccentric" Regionalism "Negro Maskers" from the Mardi Gras Day Series of 1948; Culture-Building and Contemporary Visual Arts Practice The Case of "Contemporary Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls"; Beyond Objectification and Fetishization Telling the Story of the Baby Dolls through the Visual Arts; Contemporary Artists Respond to the Baby Dolls Artists' Statements
  • Ann BrucePhillip Colwart; Keith Duncan; Marielle Jeanpierre; Ulrick Jean-Pierre; Karen La Beau; D. Lammie-Hanson; Meryt Harding; Annie Odell; Ruth Owens; Nathan "Nu'Awlons Natescott" Haynes Scott; Gailene McGhee St. Amand; Charles Lovell; Steve Prince; Vashni Balleste; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index

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