{"product_id":"building-antebellum-new-orleans-free-people-of-color-and-their-influence-9781477328552","title":"Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Best Book Prize, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBuilding Antebellum New Orleans, \u003c\/i\u003e Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of \u003ci\u003egens de couleur libres\u003c\/i\u003e--free people of color--in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003egens de couleur libres\u003c\/i\u003e thrived as property owners, developers, building artisans, and patrons. Dudley writes an intimate microhistory of two prominent families of Black developers, the Dollioles and Souli?s, to explore how \u003ci\u003egens de couleur libres\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTara A. Dudley is a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918455869714,"sku":"9781477328552","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65568494-7b9b-42c1-bc47-664bf36bf9fe.jpg?v=1738885744","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/building-antebellum-new-orleans-free-people-of-color-and-their-influence-9781477328552","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}