• DOI:10.1353/aq.2012.0060
Corpus ID: 143787706

“Midnight Scenes and Orgies”: Public Narratives of Voodoo in New Orleans and Nineteenth-Century Discourses of White Supremacy

@article{Gordon2012MidnightSA,
  title={“Midnight Scenes and Orgies”: Public Narratives of Voodoo in New Orleans and Nineteenth-Century Discourses of White Supremacy},
  author={M. Gordon},
  journal={American Quarterly},
  year={2012},
  volume={64},
  pages={767 - 786}
}

M. Gordon

Published 2012

Sociology

American Quarterly

This article examines “public narratives” of Voodoo in newspapers, travel narratives, magazines, and scholarly journals as a register of the shifting anxieties and discourses of white patriarchal supremacy across the second half of the nineteenth century. These popularized narratives authenticated the hegemonic narrative of white supremacy by offering “proof” of black criminality and hypersexuality. Post–Civil War public Voodoo narratives served as forerunners and companions to the myth of the… CONTINUE READING

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