director emeritus, Ogden Museum of Southern Art - J. Richard Gruber
Marked by accomplished photography, perceptive essays, and an elegant design, Creole World offers the reader insights into a textured, layered, and lush world.
writer for HBO's Treme and coproducer/writer of Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans - Lolis Eric Elie
In Creole World, that old New Orleans greeting 'How's your mama an'nem' gains depth and resonance. We learn that 'an'nem' includes our cousins in Haiti (cozen nou an Ayiti), our uncles in Cartagena (nuestros tíos), our aunts in Cuba (nuestras tías), and a wealth of other friends and relations in Panama. By depicting these connections so beautifully in pictures and words, Richard Sexton has made the Creole world at once larger, smaller, and better.
author of Art in the American South and coauthor of New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence - Randolph Delehanty
All the things that make New Orleans unlike North America confirm that it is part of another cultural world shaped by Spanish and French colonialism, West African labor and beliefs, and the rise and demise of the empire of sugar. Creole World is a visual homage to past cultural connections and a vivid present.