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A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes--poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality--New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer M. Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city's construction of race during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Spear brings together archival evidence from three different languages and the most recent and respected scholarship on racial formation and interracial sex to explain why free people of color became a...

• Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves
• Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes