The Art of Resistance: Sacred Visual Creations of New Orleans’ African American Mardi Gras Maskers

Date: 

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

Kim Vaz-Deville is a professor of education at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her work in New Orleans studies focuses on the lives of African Americans from the early 20th century to the present, explicitly on their material and intangible culture. In this lecture, Vaz-Deville will draw on a decade of research to explore how African American masks produce awareness among Mardi Gras revelers of their community’s African and Afro-Caribbean heritage and shared global struggles.

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