Thomas J. Adams is Dianne Woest Fellow of the Historic New Orleans Collection and senior lecturer in history and American studies at the University of Sydney. Along with Matt Sakakeeny he is the editor of Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2019).
Mainstream outlets are claiming the mounting coronavirus crisis in New Orleans is the result of cultural practices like Mardi Gras. That’s nonsense — it’s a consequence of deep class divides and decimated public health infrastructure.
After Hurricane Harvey, Trump and one of the most right-wing state governments in history get to “rebuild” an area of more than 7 million people.
Meet the nurses trying to make Bernie Sanders’s “political revolution” a reality.
The language of social justice has been used to sell intensified neoliberalism in post-Katrina New Orleans.