The Boss of New Orleans HBWL and cultural or aesthetic interventions

and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black sexualities

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whose politics prefigured today's social justice

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and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Boss of New Orleans HBWL and cultural or aesthetic interventionsAlthough relatively unknown today, Martin Behrman dominated New Orleans politics in the early twentieth century, serving as mayor from 1904 to 1920 and again in 1925 for a brief period before his death. His political organization loosely referred to as "The Regulars," "The Old Regulars," or "The Choctaw Club" was in complete control of the city during a period of rapid change. Behrman's model of government, often called "Behrmanism" by detractors, was