Race and labour in a Southern US port: New Orleans, 1860—1930

Dock Workers ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 38-56
Author(s):  
Eric Arnesen
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Southern Us

John McCrady’s “Southern Eccentric” Regionalism

Walking Raddy ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 235-260
Author(s):  
Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Mardi Gras ◽  
Southern Us ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Thomas Hart Benton ◽  
A Site ◽  
Baby Doll

This chapter examines a 1948 lithograph entitled Negro Maskers by New Orleans-based Southern Regionalist painter John McCrady (1911-1968), who produced the image for Mardi Gras Day, a book project completed with fellow artists Ralph Wickiser and Caroline Durieux. It documents McCrady’s conception of the southern US, in the decade following the Depression, as a site of singular “folk” distinction, rendered unique by picturesque scenery, African American cultural expressions, dockside scenes along the Mississippi, and carnivalesque traditions such as the Baby Doll masqueraders. Negro Maskers’ stylistic references to EI Greco, Mannerism, American Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton, and dream-like Symbolism will be discussed, charting how the image fits snugly into McCrady’s cultivation of a “Southern Eccentric” aesthetic. Above all, McCrady's print will be examined within the context of other sentimentalized, yet often subversive, images of southern, vernacular U.S. culture that distinguished his work from that of Midwestern-centered American Regionalist painters.

New Orleans Still Lacks Health Care

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (17) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
ALICIA AULT
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Orleans
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