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296 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781469622064
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 01 February 2015
Description
Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a quadroon, she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imag...
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296 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781469622064
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 01 February 2015
Description
Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a quadroon, she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imag...