| Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans Subjects: African Americans -- Segregation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century; Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church -- History -- 19th century; Segregation -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- 19th century; New O; Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and race in the crucial decades between the end of Reconstruction and the eve of the Civil Rights movement. James B. Bennett is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. |