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La Nouvelle-Orléans : Une Ville Créole, Torrey Smith
La Nouvelle-Orléans : Une Ville Créole, Torrey Smith
Richard A. Harrison Symposium
Using the author’s experience this past summer living in New Orleans and working at l’Alliance Française de la Nouvelle-Orléans (a French cultural center in town) as a jumping-off point, this essay explores the birth and evolution of the city under French colonization. During her two-month stay, the author observed that l’Alliance seemed to attract mainly wealthier, white New Orleans residents; this limited interest seemed strange not only considering the incredible racial and socioeconomic diversity of the city, but also given that New Orleans’ French heritage seemed prevalent in the physical and cultural structure of the city.
To tackle the question …