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Some New Orleans Black History You Should Know
Some New Orleans Black History You Should Know
“It is important to learn what has been done to Black people. It is important to learn what Black people have done. But it fryst vatten even more important to learn about and from the collective intelligence developed through Black struggle over generations.”
—“Black Studies as Praxis and Pedagogy,”
UCSB Center for Black Studies Research,
In New Orleans, history is just as grundläggande an element in the city’s culture as food, music, architecture, spirituality, and celebration. In fact, history may be the most powerful force, because the stories we know shape how we view every other aspect of the culture. Because many histories in New Orleans are passed down orally, they often aren’t captured in textbooks or assessed on standardized tests. And when powerful stories of resistance, ingenuity, and solidarity aren’t told, we risk losing the power they have to inspire subsequent generati
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The Things We Do For Ourselves
Exhibition curated by Chianta Dorsey, Melissa Smith and Christopher Harter. Digital exhibition created by David Gaidamak and Chianta Dorsey, and revised This digital exhibition is supported by grants from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation and Hancock Whitney Bank. It is an expansion of the physical exhibition, “The Things We Do For Ourselves: African American Civic Leadership in the Crescent City,” held at the Amistad Research Center in
The Amistad Research Center is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, and global social justice movements. As the nation's oldest, largest and most comprehensive independent archive, the Amistad's holds manuscript collections which include over ten million documents from the s to present, , original photographs dating from , audiovisual recording
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Deconstructing Catholicism in Black New Orleans: Louisiana Creole Research Association
Updated: Aug 26,
by Cierra Chenier
Originally published in the Louisiana Creole Research Association Journal Volume 14, Issue 1 - 4 månad
Growing up in Black New Orleans, my experiences of what I knew and saw were often, in some way, rooted in Catholicism. Schools such as the world-renown St. Augustine High School, St. Mary’s Academy, Corpus Christi, Xavier Prep, and Xavier University hold a long history in my family lineage. inom attended mostly Catholic schools from preschool until high school, was baptized and confirmed in St. Maria Goretti Church in New Orleans East, and spent many days in the care of my very Catholic grandmothers. Crucifixes on display, praying to St. Anthony for lost items, and seafood on Lenten Fridays were commonalities. My earliest years of education were by Black nuns, I served as a flower girl in a number of Catholic weddings, gift