Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence by Dudley, Tara

Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence

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Author: Tara Dudley
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Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence by Dudley, Tara

Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence

$179.33

Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence

$179.33
Author: Tara Dudley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

2022 PROSE Award Winner in Architecture and Urban Planning

The Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast 2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction

Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) 2022 Summerlee Best Book Prize

The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city's most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres--free people of color--in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property.

Between 1820 and 1850 New Orleans became an urban metropolis and industrialized shipping center with a growing population. Amidst dramatic economic and cultural change in the mid-antebellum period, the gens de couleur libres thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souliés, to explore how gens de couleur libres used ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship to construct individual and group identity and stability. With deep archival research, Dudley recreates in fine detail the material culture, business and social history, and politics of the built environment for free people of color and adds new, revelatory information to the canon on New Orleans architecture.



Author: Tara Dudley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 08/10/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.22w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781477323021


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2022

About the Author
Dudley, Tara: - Tara Dudley is a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

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