507. Andrew Wegmann, Part 1

507. Part 1 of our conversation with Andrew Wegmann. Andrew believes that the introduction of concepts of whiteness, purity of blood and legitimacy of kin under the Spanish caused a transformation within the New Orleans coloured community. As generations of mixed-race men and women emerged from interracial families established during the late French Period, Spanish social and legal practices permeated the New Orleans cultural landscape.

506. Tim Wise, part 2, Corrected

506. Part 2 of our interview with Tim Wise. Tim is a civil rights activist who worked in Louisiana. "Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, 'A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,' is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators...

506. Tim Wise, part 2

506. Part 2 of our interview with Tim Wise. Tim is a civil rights activist who worked in Louisiana. "Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, 'A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,' is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators...

505. Tim Wise, Part 1

505. Part 1 of our interview with Tim Wise. Tim is a civil rights activist who worked in Louisiana. 'Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, “A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators....

504. T. R. Johnson, Part 2. — Corrected.

 504. Part 2 of our interview with T. R. Johnson. T. R. is the editor of New Orleans: A Literary History, and the author of the new book, New Orleans: A Writer’s City. "The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination.

504. T. R. Johnson, Part 2

 504. Part 2 of our interview with T. R. Johnson. T. R. is the editor of New Orleans: A Literary History, and the author of the new book, New Orleans: A Writer’s City. "The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination.

503. T. R. Johnson. New Orleans writers, part 1.

503. Part 1 of our interview with T. R. Johnson. T. R. is the editor of New Orleans: A Literary History, and the author of the new book, New Orleans: A Writer’s City. "The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination.