Voodoo and Power Kirsty Stewart "-Gregory Fraser

"-Gregory Fraser

Based on more than 130 interviews and extensive archival research

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and the steady impoverishment of the once magnificent capital of the Eastern Roman Empire

In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century the promotion of the cult of the emperor encouraged a Cisleithania-wide culture of imperial celebration

Voodoo and Power Kirsty Stewart "-Gregory FraserThe racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their American born descendants. Instead, a much more complicated patchwork of influences created New Orleans Voodoo, allowing it to move across boundaries of race, class, and gender. By employing late