Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans by James Gill

Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans

James Gill

312 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by ...

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