Title The great Southern Babylon : sex, race, and respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920 / Alecia P. Long.

Publication Info.	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HQ146.N6 L66 2004	Available	---

Description	xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents	It's because you are a colored woman : sex, race, and concubinage after the Civil War -- The business of pleasure : concert saloons and sexual commerce in the economic mainstream -- Where the least harm can result : sex, race, and respectability in a single neighborhood -- Unusual situations and remarkable people : Mary Deubler, respectability, and the history of Storyville -- As rare as white blackbirds : Willie Piazza, race, and reform in Storyville.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
Subject	Prostitution -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
	Prostitution.
	Louisiana -- New Orleans.
	History.
	Sex industry -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
	Sex industry.
	Sex customs -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
	Sex customs.
	Women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions.
	Women.
	Social conditions.
	African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions.
	African Americans.
	New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
	Miscegenation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
	Miscegenation.
	New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs.
	New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.
	Social status -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
	Social status.
	Female prostitution.
	Prostitution.
	Sexual practices.
	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	0807129321 cloth alkaline paper