Beloved Mary and the Little Folks

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-144
Author(s):  
Jean H. Baker
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Home Life ◽  
Financial Arrangements ◽  
Writing Science

Chapter 4 covers Latrobe’s home life with his wife and five children; for Latrobe, children removed “the mortification of selflove” and provided solace and recreation from a turbulent professional world. The chapter also explores his interest and ideas about education including that of his own children. He thought that a newly ordered political society without a king or established hierarchy demanded a curriculum with emphasis placed on practical studies in the areas of mathematics, physics, writing, science, and even modern languages. Such schooling should prepare students for the financial arrangements of professions, as he believed his Moravian education had not. Additionally, the chapter discusses his daughter Lydia’s marriage, his chronic “hemicranias,” his growing debt, and his son Henry’s placage arrangement in New Orleans with a mixed-race woman.

The Rise and Fall of St. Thomas

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The State ◽  
Hope Vi ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
Slum Area ◽  
The 1960S

Chapters 3–5 focus on New Orleans to illustrate one dominant strand of HOPE VI practice—the confluence of a weak housing authority and a Big Developer governance constellation in a city without a robust tradition of coordinated tenant empowerment. Chapter 3 traces the rise and fall of the St. Thomas development, completed in 1941 and later extended in 1952. This replaced a mixed-race “slum” area with public housing for white tenants, an act entailing a substantial neighborhood purge. The fifteen-hundred-unit development shifted to primarily black occupancy following desegregation in the 1960s and subsequently underwent disinvestment that led to a protracted decline. Meanwhile, the Louisiana legislature rescinded the state enabling legislation for urban renewal, thereby limiting its impact on both slum clearance while also curtailing the rise of community organizing. White preservationists stopped the Riverfront Expressway, but no one stopped Interstate 10 from devastating a black neighborhood.

The Partnership Begins

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Con Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Duke Ellington ◽  
Carnegie Hall

This chapter describes the early years of Hodges’s association with Duke Ellington beginning in 1928, when the band strove to play “jungle music” that would titillate white patrons of the segregated Cotton Club, where the group served as house band. Hodges’s seductive approach added a new dimension to the growls, hot rhythms, and strange harmonies that characterized Ellington’s early efforts; the warmth of his tone, his flatted “blue” notes and his plaintive phrasing brought an element of New Orleans to Ellington’s New York band that it had lacked after the brief tenure of Sidney Bechet ended. Noteworthy performances of the 1930s are described, including Hodges’s participation in Benny Goodman’s 1938 mixed-race concert at Carnegie Hall. Goodman and Ellington were rivals, and Ellington was upset that Goodman got to Carnegie Hall before he did and that Hodges showed an independent streak by participating.

E. J. Edmunds, School Integration, and White Supremacist Backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (03) ◽  
pp. 379-406
Author(s):  
Sian Zelbo
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The Political ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intellectual Elite ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Senior Students ◽  
Radical Reconstruction

When the New Orleans school board appointed E. J. Edmunds, a light-skinned Afro-Creole man, the mathematics teacher for the city's best high school in 1875, the senior students walked out rather than have a “negro” as a teacher of “white youths.” Edmunds's appointment was a final, bold act by the city's mixed-race intellectual elite in exercising the political power they held under Radical Reconstruction to strip racial designations from public schools. White supremacist Redeemers responded with a vicious propaganda campaign to define, differentiate, and diminish the “negro race.” Edmunds navigated the shifting landscape of race in the New Orleans public schools first as a student and then as a teacher, and the details of his life show the impact on ordinary Afro-Creoles as the city's warring politicians used the public schools both to undermine and reinforce the racial order.

The Decorative Ornamental Ironwork of New Orleans: Connections to Geometry and Haiti

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 430-436
Author(s):  
Yvelyne Germain-McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The State ◽  
Wrought Iron ◽  
French Quarter ◽  
To Come ◽  
Slave Revolts

Think about new orleans. images of the wrought-iron balconies and doors of the French Quarter probably come to mind. Wrought iron was first brought to New Orleans from Spain in 1790. During the next twenty years, a number of free, mixed-race Haitians fled the Haitian slave revolts and entered the southern ports of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans. The Haitian refugees who came to Louisiana between 1791 and 1809 were better trained and better educated than were the inhabitants of the Louisiana territory, and “their influence insured that the state would have a Creole flair for years to come” (Hunt 1988, 58).

“Something Good Distracts Us from the Bad”

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Leigh Endsley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Spoken Word Poetry ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Girls Of Color ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Girlhood Studies

There are increasing demands that scholars of girlhood studies pay attention to the ways in which girls of color challenge the powerful discourses that work to constrain them. I take up this call to action through an analysis of the spoken word poetry of black, brown, and mixed-race high school girls in New Orleans, Louisiana. I discuss varying levels of consciousness about these discourses as represented in the poems of three girls aged 14, 15, and 16 that offer nuanced entry into the ambiguous process of their developing identities. I link instances of disruption highlighted through their poetry to aspects of their day-to-day experience to present a theoretical intervention that I call cultivated disruption that points to the ways in which girls of color are already practicing poetry as pleasurable and creative survival.

Nationalism and the Internationalideal

Philosophy ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 10 (39) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
W. D. lamont
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Race ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Nation And Nationalism

“Nation” and “nationalism” are not easily defined; mainly, perhaps, because these words, as popularly used, do not have precise meanings. A nation may mean: (1) A people living under a common government,—as when we speak of British or French “nationals"; or (2) A people with a common racial inheritance—the Jews; or (3) A people, inhabiting a certain tract of the earth's surface, with generally common sentiments and habits of thinking, though possibly of mixed race, and part of a wider political society—the English, as distinguished from the Scottish, or Irish, nation.

City of Song

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally McKee
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
The Poor

This chapter illustrates how Dede was unlikely to have made common cause with the poor migrants who were black or mixed race passing through or settled in Bordeaux. By the time he moved to the Folies-Bordelaises, mixed-race people perhaps did not associate him with a spirit of adventure. But whatever prejudice Dede confronted in France paled in comparison to what he would have experienced back in New Orleans. He had steady employment as an orchestra leader throughout the 1860s–1880s, perhaps not in the professional milieu he would have preferred, but he competed against French musicians for jobs and won them. Popular music has always been popular chiefly among the young; growing older, then, cannot have been easy for him, as styles changed and the imperative of keeping up with the public's taste required a young person's energy.

New Orleans Still Lacks Health Care

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (17) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
ALICIA AULT
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Orleans
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