
The Ballad of Robert Charles
Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900
K. Stephen Prince
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2021
Pages: 264
Subject: History, Biography and Autobiography, Social Science
Print ISBN: 9781469661810
eBook ISBN: 9781469661834
DESCRIPTION
In this fascinating work, K. Stephen Prince sheds fresh light on both the history of the Robert Charles riots and the practice of history-writing itself. He reveals evidence of intentional erasures, both in the ways the riot and its aftermath were chronicled and in the ways stories were silenced or purposefully obscured. But Prince also excavates long-hidden facts from the narratives passed down by white and black New Orleanians over more than a century. In so doing, he probes the possibilities and limitations of the historical imagination.
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