Museum, Refinery, Penitentiary

A vintage map shows part of Louisiana, highlighting land plots with colored sections along the Mississippi River and labeled areas such as West Feliciana.

Postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Professor in Architecture Bryan Norwood examines how restored plantations, petrochemical factories, and prison labor all reinforce the continuing history of racial capitalism along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Read the full article at Places Journal.