The New Orleans Course Archive

"They were known as “the McDonogh Three,” and unlike many stories of the tumultuous civil rights era, this one has a hopeful ending.

On May 4, 2022, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost are scheduled to cut the ribbons around the front door of the former McDonogh 19 Elementary School.

Located in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, the school was the scene of some of the nation’s fiercest anti-integration school battles in the early 1960s.

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Lucile Tucker to Rice Ballard, 1847

Cécile Vidal, Caribbean New Orleans

[François Chéreau]. Le Mississipi ou la Louisiane dans l’Amérique septentrionale. Circa 1720. Département estampes et photographie. EST VD-21 (2). Courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Paris via Cécile Vidal’s Caribbean New Orleans

The #Slaveryarchive Book Club video on #WickedFlesh is live:

We will meet on August 12 (WEDNESDAY), via Zoom, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM to discuss the book Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy and Freedom in the Atlantic World by our colleague historian Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University).

“Bulbancha is Still A Place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans is a new collaborative Native zine under the umbrella of the POC Zine Project. Issue #1, The Tricentennial Issue, is jammed with art, essays, history, family lore, and poetry; but superb layout ensures it never feels overwhelming. If, like me, you aren’t very conversant with the indigenous history of our region (even if, like me, you’d sort of thought you were), reading Bulbancha is like being invited into a wide-ranging conversation full of new ideas, new words, new perspectives, and new voices. “Contributing Editor-Who’s-Not-a-Chief ” Dr. Jeffery U. Darensbourg, a member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas, kicks off the issue with a piece titled “Decolonizing the Tricentennial of New Orleans.” His essay firmly, unequivocally rejects the idea of New Orleans’ 300th anniversary—and even the name New Orleans. This bracing refusal carves out an immense psychogeographical space for the rest of the zine to unfold and expand into. As Darensbourg says, before the colonists tried to name this place, it was already a place… and it’s still a place. I spoke with Dr. Darensbourg about the zine and its ideas.”

Read: REVIVING INDIGENOUS HISTORIES with BULBANCHA IS STILL A PLACE – Antigravity Magazine https://ift.tt/3hgHIH3

Cécile Vidal, Caribbean New Orleans

The next session of the #Slaveryarchive book club will be held on August 12, 2020 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM with Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Penn Press, August 2020).

UPDATE: To get the book sooner than Amazon, go to Penn Press https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16139.html and add the book to the cart & use the discount code (40% + free shipping) SHEAR40-FM valid until 8/19!

More details: slaveryarchive.wordpress.com

It seems like a small thing with a global pandemic happening right now, but if you’ve the means and/or enjoy reading, please do support the books being published this spring and summer. For the authors, it’s a bit of good news in the midst of a lot of chaos, but I suspect that many of us have or will lose opportunities to meet you readers in person, read work in the communities we wrote the books for, and otherwise build with you. And that goes for academics, but also poets, fiction writers, essayists–anyone engaged in the printed word. Plus with so much in crisis, book releases feel a little bittersweet.

François A. L. Dumoulin, Calinda, danse des Nègres en Amérique, 1788. Aquarelle, 25.5 x 35.5 cm, MHV © MHV.

via François Aimé Louis Dumoulin, ou les images d’un Suisse aux Caraïbes – par Claire Brizon – Journal18: a journal of eighteenth-century art and culture http://bit.ly/2W7METF

Bayou Goula, Darkey Quarters at Sugar Plantation Title written in ink below photograph on mount “Unusual double exposure” (x)

Golfe du Mexique / Delineabat F. Le Maire… Author : Le Maire, François (16..-17..). Cartographe Publication date : 1716 (×)