Carnival in Alabama : marked bodies and invented traditions in Mobile /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Machado, Isabel (Cultural historian) (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:	Carnival > Alabama > Mobile. Mobile (Ala.) > History. Mobile (Ala.) > Social life and customs. Carnival. Manners and customs. Alabama > Mobile. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Preface: on Carnival cities and language choices
Introduction
Chapter 1. Official narratives, origin myths, and tradition invention
Chapter 2. Regulating, controlling, and sanctioning revelry
Chapter 3. Downtown: Mobile's "Negro Main Street" and the emergence of the "Fruit Loop"
Chapter 4. Official "Colored" Mardi Gras and Mobile's Black liberation struggle
Chapter 5. Queering Mobile's Mardi Gras
Chapter 6. Carnivalesque bodies: defying the white gaze and respectability politics
Chapter 7. Plus Ça change?
Conclusion: Now you do watcha wanna
Appendix: narrators Index
Notes
Bibliography
Index.