The sights and sounds of a defining local cultural practice, second line parades, come alive in “Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans,” on view at The Historic New Orleans Collection from February 25 to June 13, 2021.
Retired SPU professor’s new book may have you asking, where’s a mutual aid society for me?
Updated Feb 25, 2021;
5 Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood by retired Saint Peter s University professor Fatima Shaik
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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhoodby Fatima Shaik (The Historic New Orleans Collection, February 25, 2021, $34.95).
Out today, Feb. 25, from retired Saint Peter’s University professor Fatima Shaik comes a book that is a reminder of how lacking the history most of us learn in school is.
“Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood” gives people relegated to that curriculum’s footnotes a portrait that shows how multifaceted they were. It also hints at how much more they could accomplish (on top of what they already did) if they weren’t limited by a system increasingly designed to use them in someone else’s favor.
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A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has taken his research into Reconstruction history to new heights with the launch of a graphic history book that he hopes will be the first in a series on racial history and justice in the United States.
Dr. Brian Mitchell, assistant professor of history at UA Little Rock, wrote the manuscript for “Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana” four years ago. He worked with Nick Weldon, an editor, and Barrington Edwards, an illustrator, to bring Dunn’s story to life in the 256-page book.
“I believed that Dunn’s story and that of Reconstruction Louisiana offer us a valuable perspective on race, violence, politics, and citizenship which we could use today,” said Mitchell, who is a distant relative of Dunn’s.
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