Zócalo in New Orleans: The New Race Relations
“In New Orleans, you gotta start with music,” said Ned Sublette, before singing a tune by James Andrews: “One, Two, What You Gonna Do?”, on the response, or lack thereof, to Hurricane Katrina. Sublette was the keynote speaker for Zócalo’s conference, La Nueva Orleans? Race and Immigration in Post-Katrina America, generously supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Before two panels took the stage to address present day race relations and immigrant integration in America, Sublette told a brief history of the city he has chronicled in two …
