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“kim vaz deville”

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  • The 'Baby Dolls'

    Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition

    by Kim Vaz-Deville ...
    One of the first women's organizations to "mask" in a Mardi Gras parade, the "Million Dollar Baby Dolls" redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. Tracing their origins from Storyville brothels and dance halls to their re-emergence in post-Katrina New Orleans, author Kim Vaz uncovers the fascinating history of the "raddy-walking, shake-dancing, cigar-smoking, money-flinging" ladies that ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Walking Raddy

    The Baby Dolls of New Orleans

    Edited by Kim Vaz-Deville ...
    Contributions by Jennifer Atkins, Vashni Balleste, Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Ron Bechet, Melanie Bratcher, Jerry Brock, Ann Bruce, Violet Harrington Bryan, Rachel Carrico, Sarah Anita Clunis, Phillip Colwart, Keith Duncan, Rob Florence, Pamela R. Franco, Daniele Gair, Meryt Harding, Megan Holt, DeriAnne Meilleur Honora, Marielle Jeanpierre, Ulrick Jean-Pierre, Jessica Marie Johnson, Karen La Beau, D ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Why New Orleans Matters

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  • The Wind in the Reeds

    A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken

    by Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher ...
    **2016 Christopher Award WinnerFrom acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art.**On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American ... Read more

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  • Feet on the Street

    Rambles Around New Orleans

    by Roy Blount Jr. ...
    “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So ... Read more

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  • My New Orleans

    Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers

    Edited by Rosemary James ...
    From famous writers and personalities who call the city home, whether by birth or simply love, these pieces written in the wake of Hurricane Katrina serve as a timeless tribute to New Orleans.Sentimental, joyful, and witty, these essays by celebrated writers, entertainers, chefs, and fans honor the life of one of America's most beloved cities. Paul Prudhomme writes about the emotional highs New ... Read more

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  • Hidden in the Mix

    The African American Presence in Country Music

    Edited by Diane Pecknold ...
    Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street musician Tee Tot Payne taught a young Hank Williams Sr.; the guitar playing of Arnold Schultz ... Read more

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  • Toni Morrison

    Writing the Moral Imagination

    by Valerie Smith ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
    This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels.Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American ... Read more

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  • Blues for New Orleans

    Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

    by Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson, Roger Abrahams ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in ... Read more

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  • Racial Innocence

    Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

    by Robin Bernstein ...
    Series Book 16 - America and the Long 19th Century
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  • Crescent City Girls

    The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans

    by LaKisha Michelle Simmons ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children’s streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls’ personal lives. Simmons argues that these children faced the difficult task of adhering to middle-class expectations of purity ... Read more

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