Louisiana Beyond Black and White: New Interpretations of Twentieth-Century Race and Race Relations

Louisiana Beyond Black and White: New Interpretations of Twentieth-Century Race and Race Relations

New Interpretations of Twentieth-Century Race and Race Relations

Louisiana Beyond Black and White brings together the most up-to-date essays by historians studying the related concepts of race and race relations in the state. The essays expand upon a variety of the major historical themes, notably Louisiana's multi-tiered racial structure and contingent understandings of race, the interplay of race and religion, the effects of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, the role of women and intellectuals in the black freedom movement, and the continuing struggles for economic and social rights after the end of the traditional civil rights era. Contributors include: Adam Fairclough, Susan Dollar, Thomas Aiello, Justin Poché, John Kyle Day, Charles Pellegrin, Michael Wade, Shannon Frystak, Greta de Jong, and Michael S. Martin, editor.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Adam Fairclough

Editor's Introduction by Michael S. Martin

Ethnicity and Jim Crow: The Americanization of Louisiana's Creoles by Susan E. Dollar

Calumny in the House of the Lord: The 1932 Zion Traveler Church Shooting by Thomas Aiello

Separate but Sinful: The Desegregation of Louisiana Catholicism, 1938-1962 by Justin Poché

Progressives and Conservatives?: Louisiana's Bifactional Politics and Massive Resistance by John Kyle Day

Race, Cold War, and Academia: Medford Evans of Northwestern State College, 1955-1959 by Charles J. Pellegrin

Lost, Stolen and Strayed: Marcus Christian's Crusade Against Segregationist History by Michael G. Wade

A Dissenting Tradition: Louisiana Women and the Black Struggle for Equality, 1924-1968 by Shannon Frystak

From Votes to Vegetables: Civil Rights Activism and the Low-Income Cooperative Movement in Louisiana after 1965 by Greta de Jong

Katrina and the Social Construction of Race in New Orleans by Shannon Frystak

Also included are suggested readings on Race and Race Relations in Louisiana history.

Softcover, 200 page, ©2011

ISBN: 9781935754046