The Creole Dandy

Solange is giving all sorts of life tonight! So glad I heard about this last minute. House of Blues, Nola.

This Sinkane guy is pretty darn amazing! House of Blues, Nola.

02.03.13. You ready?

So yeah, I almost crashed my car this weekend when I noticed King B plastered in lights across the side of the New Orleans Arena!!!

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My first love, #nola.

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animasorella:

Wanderlust: Louisiana, USA

My office hours attempt to explain to a student the geographies of pre-Katrina Black middle-class flight to the suburbs-within-the-city and the resulting spatial and economic vulnerability of the post-Katrina Black working-class; or, how the #Marigny became 99% white, and how #Tremé is on the way. #nola #neworleans (at Dillard University)

The amazing Kermit Ruffins at the Tremé 200 Bicentennial, 1812-2012. #tremé200 #tremé #nola #6thward (at Louis Armstrong Park)

Gorgeous day in Armstrong Park/Congo Square for the Tremé Bicentennial celebration—food, jazz, black creativity. #Tremé200 #nola #nofilter (at Louis Armstrong Park)

One of my favorite museums! #noaam #nola (at New Orleans African American Museum)

The Brutal Realities of a scholar’s Life in New Orleans

In the academy, we often times comfort (read: insulate) ourselves by theorizing black-on-black violence as a post-modern, post-industrial, post-civil rights intersection of Fanonian race, Stuart Hallian representation, and Foucauldian power/knowledge. The unfortunate truth is that even the rigor of an African American Studies ph.d. from a plush R1 institution does not prepare you to navigate the intangible human emotion when two of your undergraduate students in two separate incidences must deal with the violent loss of loved ones.

Solemnly,

TheCreoleDandy

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My Most Favorite Ice Cream Ever… ”Creole Cream Cheese” by New Orleans Ice Cream Co.

Central Business District; or, when Night meets Morning.

“Congo Square” Historical Marker

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

indypendenthistory:

The Crescent City circa 1906. “The French Market, New Orleans.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive :: French Market: 1906)