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The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central put in place the favorite image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Electricity, the religion was not a monolithic custom handed down from African ancestors with their American-born descendants. Instead, a more complicated patchwork of influences created New Orleans Voodoo, and can move across boundaries of race, school, and gender. By using late 19th and early on 20th-century first-hand accounts of Voodoo experts and their rituals, Roberts provides a nuanced understanding of who employed Voodoo and why. Voodoo in New Orleans, a mélange of religious beliefs, entrepreneurship, and business systems, stretched over the color brand in intriguing ways. Voodoo rituals and companies also drew motivation from the surrounding milieu, including the privations of the Great Depression, metropolis s complicated racial record, and the free-market market. Money, job, and business became central concerns for the religious beliefs s experts: to validate their work, some began operating from just lately organized Religious Churches, entities that were tax exempt and therefore authentic in the eyes of the express of Louisiana. Experts even leveraged local results like the mythohistoric Marie Laveau for spiritual purposes and entrepreneurial gain. All the while, they contributed to the cultural legacy that fueled New Orleans s holiday industry and drew visitors and their money to the Crescent City. The publication is released by Louisiana Point out University Press.
