Humanity and Terror in the US of A

For the past few weeks, I’ve been walking around preoccupied with the ways in which capitalism, racism, and white privilege have distanced me from experiencing my full humanity. Despite how hard I try… Read More →

Jazz Fest

Confession: I’m a New Orleans cultural historian who has never been to Jazz Fest. That’s pretty ridiculous, right? Well, I guess I have been–I went a couple of times in high school. But… Read More →

Balance and Hansberry

The post below was wordy and a bit pompous. As you can probably tell, I’m struggling to find the balance between writing for an audience of academic specialists and writing for the community… Read More →

Theatre, Education, and Blues Epistemologies: The Call and Response of LOCKDOWN and CATCH THE WALL

We live in a youth-centered city. Management by youth is one thing that New Orleans’s theatre scene (at least, its Bywater elements) and the city’s education climate have in common. In No Excuses… Read More →

Lockdown: World Premiere!

I’m so excited because this weekend, Junebug Productions’ new play, Lockdown, premieres at the Ashe CAC! This play is a can’t miss production for anyone interested in public education reform, social justice, and… Read More →

Featured video – 'A Buzz in My Hub: Gender, Race, and Performing the Creative City'

Reblogged from AntipodeFoundation.org: by Heather McLean, York University Toby Sharp is an urban philosopher, a think tank hipster, a TED-talking ‘creative city’ guru with the vision to transform any city. A composite character… Read More →

Colonization and White Nativism in the Swamps, on the day after St. Joseph’s

some critical-race-anti-imperialism-deep-personal thoughts, in process (3/22/13: I revised this post to attempt to better reflect on cultural mythologies about the Louisiana wetlands, building on what I am learning from one of my students,… Read More →

Recommended: Hope Against Hope, Sarah Carr

Reblogged from the becoming radical: I just read and reviewed Hope against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America’s Children by Sarah Carr, to be released February 26, 2013. I… Read More →

The Definitive Response To People Who Ask, ‘But What About White History Month?’

Thanks Upworthy.

TDR: New Orleans: It’s About the Listening

The Spring 2013 issue of TDR with a special NOLA section is now live! Check it out. Sometime during the summer of 2010, Jan Gilbert tracked me down in Boston’s South End. She… Read More →