Walker Evans--"Girl in French Quarter" (1935)
Yaba Blay +
Shantrelle Lewis join
#StrangeFruit
hosts
Kaila Story and
Jaison Gardner in a conversation about
Beyonce's "Formation" and NOLA culture. As Professor Blay notes, "The history of New Orleans is a history of colorism," she explains. "It is a history of oppression based not just on skin color, but on gradation of skin color."
Published on February 14, 2016 10:16