Winter 2023
About Our Cover
A tugboat on the lower Mississippi River. Photo by Zack Smith.
Contents
The Other “Undocumented” Workers
“Pumps and the Opera”
The Life and Work of Elizabeth Brandon
Departments
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Articles
Peculiar and Incendiary
Julian Moreau’s The Black Commandos.
Against the Current
River pilots in an age of automation
The Other “Undocumented” Workers
Illegal free Black labor in antebellum New Orleans
“Pumps and the Opera”
New Orleans was an operatic capital, with people of color often at the fore
The Life and Work of Elizabeth Brandon
An elegant refugee who became an unsung hero of Louisiana French folklore
Of Basins and Watersheds
An alternative view of Louisiana’s geographical context
Choctaw Gumbo
The dish owes many debts to Native cooks—but not its name
Long Live the Swamp Fox!
North Louisiana’s Tony Joe White
64 Parishes Welcomes Alison Pelegrin
The new Louisiana Poet Laureate shares work about people, places, ruination, and rebirth
Integrating Grambling
Mary Barnes and the Louisiana Civil Rights Movement
The Orphan Train Museum
Opelousas commemorates a complex child welfare project
Outsider in Ouachita Parish Politics
George B. Hamlet, Monroe’s first Black mayor
From Whole Cloth
Magazine
Culture Shock
Discovering Cajun and Creole music
Mapping Trans Joy
A community finds belonging and resists erasure
Almost as Good as Football
Robert Mann’s Kingfish U
Victor Séjour, La Société des Artisans, and Afro-Creole Literary Protest
An excerpt from Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775–1877 by Caryn Cossé Bell
The Art of Language
The Art of Language
Looking at Louisiana
A new photography book from The Historic New Orleans Collection
The Warhol Generation
The LSU Museum of Art in Baton Rouge premieres Andy Warhol/Friends and Frenemies: Prints from the Cochran Collection
Cheers to 25 Years!
A rejuvenated Creole Heritage Center continues to empower Louisiana Creoles
