Category: United States

  • The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…

  • Star Trek’s Zoe Saldana Drops the Mic Allure June 2016 Sarah Van Boven She doesn’t shy away from confronting sexism. She doesn’t shy away from facing issues of race in Hollywood. In fact, Zoe Saldana doesn’t shy away. Full stop. Zoe Saldana is talking shit. No, for real: “Everybody told me, ‘Oh, don’t worry, I…

  • Becoming American in Creole New Orleans: family, community, labor and schooling, 1896-1949 University of Sussex May 2015 371 pages Darryl G. Barthé, Jr. Doctorate of Philosophy in History The Louisiana Creole community in New Orleans went through profound changes in the first half of the 20th-century. This work examines Creole ethnic identity, focusing particularly on the transition…

  • A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.

  • Another Health Funder That’s Focused on Race in a Big Way Inside Philanthropy 2016-06-16 Rob McCarthy The racial dimension of health equity has long preoccupied top funders in the healthcare space and it’s not hard to see why. Spend five minutes looking at health data for the United States and you’ll be blown away by…

  • A Confederate Dissident, in a Film With Footnotes The New York Times 2016-06-15 Jennifer Schuessler The forthcoming Matthew McConaughey drama “Free State of Jones” lays claim to being the first Hollywood film in decades to depict Reconstruction, the still controversial post-Civil War period that attempted to rebuild the South along racially egalitarian lines. But the…

  • A Creole melting pot: the politics of language, race, and identity in southwest Louisiana, 1918-45 University of Sussex September 2015 353 pages Christophe Landry Doctorate of Philosophy in History Southwest Louisiana Creoles underwent great change between World Wars I and II as they confronted American culture, people, and norms. This work examines that cultural transformation,…

  • News Alert | Four new theses in Europe explore Louisiana history Louisiana Historic and Cultural Vistas 2016-06-17 Christophe Landry For immediate release European theses explore Louisiana history In 2015 and 2016, students in England and the Netherlands finalized research on Louisiana history, culminating in dissertations (called theses in the United Kingdom and Holland). It probably…

  • Conversations: Victoria Bynum Mississippi Public Broadcasting Aired: 2016-06-16 Length: 00:26:46 Historian and author Victoria Bynum talks about her book, “The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest War.” First published in 2003, the book tells the story of Jones County residents who opposed secession from the Union during the civil war. The true story is receiving…

  • Yes, I’m Black! Here’s why. Medium 2016-06-16 Megan Madison, Doris Duke Fellow School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Part of an EmbraceRace series on “mixed-race” identity. Based on how people identify themselves, and accounting for their parents’ and grandparents’ identities, the Pew Research Center recently found that 7% of US adults…