"Baby Dolls" Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition

ISBN-10: 0807150703

ISBN-13: 9780807150702

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kim Marie Vaz

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Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Kim Vaz is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Social Foundations at the University of South Florida. Gary Lemons is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida.



Prelude: On Being an Example of Hope



Foreword: Black Storyville



Introduction: A New Orleans Mardi Gras Masking Tradition



Gender, Race, and Masking in the Age of Jim Crow



Women Dancing the Jazz



"Oh You Beautiful Doll": The Baby Doll as a National Sex Symbol in the Progressive Era



A New Group of Baby Dolls Hits the Streets



"We Are No Generation": Resurrecting the Central Role of Dance to the Creation of New Orleans Music


Acknowledgments


Appendixes



A History of Baby Doll Masking in the Baby Dolls' Own Words



Some Known Million Dollar Baby Doll Participants



The Geographical Landscape of the Million Dollar Baby Doll



Million Dollar Baby Doll Slang



Charting the History of Baby Doll Groups


Notes


Bibliography


Index