Abstract
I’ve spent the last five months back in the US, thanks to a generous fellowship in Latin American Studies at Tulane in New Orleans. It was great to be in that wonderful, troubled town just when the Take ‘Em Down NOLA social movement of African Americans and their supporters succeeded in pushing local government to remove offensive commemorations of the Confederacy that had been erected as part of the backlash against Reconstruction and the triumph of Jim Crow laws and white terrorism...