Segregation of the free people of color and the construction of race in Antebellum New Orleans

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-37

  Sumpter, Amy R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction of race; Free people of color; New Orleans

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; COLONIALISM; CULTURAL CONFLICT; CULTURAL TRADITION; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; RACIAL IDENTITY; RACIAL SEGREGATION;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 46649106508     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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