Among the many books on New Orleans and Louisiana that I have read over the years, these were particularly helpful in the work on In the Shadow of Statues.
Tyler Bridges, The Rise of David Duke (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994)
Freddi Williams Evans, Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans (Lafayette, LA: ULL Press, 2011)
Jed Horne, Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City (New York: Random House, 2006)
Sybil Kein, ed., Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000)
James W. Loewen, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (New York: Touchstone, 2000)
James W. Loewen and Edward H. Sebesta, The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” about the “Lost Cause” (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010)
Keith Weldon Medley, Black Life in Old New Orleans (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2014)
Lawrence N. Powell, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012)
Douglas D. Rose, ed., The Emergence of David Duke and the Politics of Race (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992)
Ibrahima Seck, Bouki Fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation), Louisiana, 1750–1860 (New Orleans, LA: UNO Press, 2014)
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011)