The 'Baby Dolls' : Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition /

"One of the first women's organizations to mask and perform during Mardi Gras, the Million Dollar Baby Dolls redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. Tracing their origins from Storyville-era brothels and dance halls to their re-emergence in post-Katrina New Orleans, author Kim Marie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaz, Kim Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Manners and customs.
Carnival.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women.
Noires americaines > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Conditions sociales.
Noires americaines > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire.
Carnavals > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions.
African American women > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Carnival > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude. On being an example of hope / by Millisia White
  • Foreword. Black storyville / by Keith Weldon Medley
  • Introduction. A New Orleans Mardi Gras masking tradition. 1. Gender, race, and masking in the age of Jim Crow ; 2. Women dancing the jazz ; 3. "Oh you beautiful doll": the Baby Doll as a national sex symbol in the progressive era ; 4. A new group of Baby Dolls hits the streets ; 5. "We are no generation": resurrecting the central role of dance to the creation of New Orleans music
  • Appendixes. A. A history of Baby Doll masking in the Baby Dolls' own words ; B. Some known Million Dollar Baby Doll participants ; C. The geographical landscape of the Million Dollar Baby Doll ; D. Million Dollar Baby Doll slang ; E. Charting the history of Baby Doll groups.

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