Oscar Garza Interviews Ned Sublette

Oscar Garza and Ned Sublette joined Zócalo for our conference, La Nueva Orleans? Race and Immigration in Post-Katrina America. Before the event began, the two sat down to chat about Sublette’s latest, The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans. Sublette explains how the book came to be, his relationship with New Orleans, and why New Orleans culture is still going strong.

To read more about Sublette and Garza’s discussions at the conference, click here.

*Photo courtesy New Orleans Lady.

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