Building Antebellum New Orleans - Tara Dudley

Building Antebellum New Orleans

Free People of Color and Their Influence

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2024
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2855-2 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
2024 Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians

2022 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning

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

2022 Best Book Prize, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians

2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning

A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.


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 re-creates 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.

Tara A. Dudley is a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I. Ownership: Possessing the Built Environment

Chapter 1. The Gens de Couleur Libres’ Acquisition of Property
Chapter 2. The Ramifications of Use and Location


Part II. Engagement: Forming and Transforming the Built Environment

Chapter 3. The Architecture of the Dolliole and Soulié Families
Chapter 4. “Uncommon Industry”: Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans
Chapter 5. “Raised to the Trade”: Building Practices of Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans
Chapter 6. The Status Quo: French, Creole, and Anglo Builders and Architects in Antebellum New Orleans


Part III. Entrepreneurship: Controlling the Built Environment

Chapter 7. Money, Power, and Status in the Building Trades


Conclusion. The Gens de Couleur Libres’ Development of Self and Group Identity through Ownership, Formation, Transformation, and Control of the Built Environment
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 94 b&w photos and 22 color photos
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-4773-2855-6 / 1477328556
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-2855-2 / 9781477328552
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