Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) Hoodoo and how to use herbalism

and how to use herbalism and magic—derived from ancestral and spiritual helpers—to heal

Ama Codjoe meditates on rain

learning tricks along the way

his harried boss

but finds her grandmother dead – murdered – with no killer in sight

Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) Hoodoo and how to use herbalismA rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans. When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks