James Gill
James Gill (1942-2024) wasa writer and a columnist who worked for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana, before joining the staff of The Advocate. He is author of Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans and coauthor (with Howard Hunter) of Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans’s Confederate Statues, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
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Lords of Misrule
Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
By James Gill
University Press of Mississippi
The often-bloody history of Mardi Gras and the uproar over the government’s enforcement of diversity in Carnival krewes
Tearing Down the Lost Cause
The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues
By James Gill and Howard Hunter
University Press of Mississippi
How New Orleans became a Confederate city after the war, and how citizens tore those symbols down
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