Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans"Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celerated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by a white male elite." -- back cover. |
Contents
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The Rise and Fall of French Carnival | 27 |
Comus Dons Confederate Gray | 59 |
The Krewes the Klan | 77 |
The Battle of Liberty Place | 109 |
Confederate Krewemon Rise Again | 123 |
Who Killa da Chief? | 145 |
Honoring the White League Mariyrs | 155 |
KREWES COME MARCHING HOME AGAIN | 193 |
MISERABLE KREWES | 221 |
GUESS WHOS COMING TO REX | 247 |
THE SECOND BATTLE OF LIBERTY PLACE | 259 |
THE BITER BIT | 279 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES | 283 |
INDEX | 291 |
COMUS AND THE KINGFISH | 175 |
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