I Want Magic: Essays on New Orleans, the South, and Race History Leon Chavis

Leon Chavis

This catalog is a joint publication of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press and the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum

a pistol-packing babysitter

Worn out with his exertions

I Want Magic: Essays on New Orleans, the South, and Race History Leon ChavisI Want Magic: Essays on New Orleans, the South, and Race by C. W. Cannon About the Book This collection brings together thirty five essays published by New Orleans native C. W. Cannon over the past ten years in such outlets as The Lens, The Times Picayune, and The Rumpus. In his essays, Cannon utilizes his life experiences and intimate knowledge of his native city to explore the tension between New Orleanss exceptionalism and Americanism, its identity