Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Feb 24, 2020

On Mardi Gras's Caribbean Roots

A Conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

New Books Network 2020

NYIH Fellow Josh-Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose last book, Island People, explored the Caribbean in all its complexities. On the occasion of Mardi Gras, he sat down with us to talk about New Orleans’s deep Caribbean roots.

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