Culture Wars, Ethnic Rivalry, and New Orleans’ Messy Municipality Era
An ill-fated attempt to resolve social problems through political geography—and by exploiting ethnic geography—is explained by Tulane geographer Richard Campanella in "Culture Wars, Ethnic Rivalry, and New Orleans' Messy Municipality Era," courtesy The Times-Picayune (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,” will feature a series…
An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans
This Journal of American History article by Tulane geographer Richard Campanella maps and spatially analyzes the residential settlement patterns of various ethnic and racial groups in New Orleans, from antebellum times to post-Katrina. New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,” will feature a series…