In this lecture we look at New Orleans as it undergoes a profound transformation from a Creole city to an American metropolis. This involved not only the change in population from predominantly Black and Creole to white. It also involved the different experiences of race and culture that newcomers—both white and Black—brought with them as they moved to New Orleans during the mid-nineteenth century. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans experienced a large influx of white Northerners and European immigrants seeking opportunities. By the early twentieth century, these varied groups had in some ways merged with, and in other ways superseded the older Creole world. While we must avoid romanticizing antebellum New Orleans, which, after all, was a society grounded thoroughly in enslavement, we are interested in the shifting racial imaginaries and geographies that a Creole city like New Orleans undergoes as it is transformed by Anglo-American culture and the expanding system of racial apartheid extant in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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