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Walter C. Stern. Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764–1960. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. 368 pp.

broader historical accounts of the emergence of a consumer society. Did MNAS amplify certain elements of that social regime and suppress others? Did it make that new way of life better or worse? Without posing these questions, this narrative, so comprehensive in many ways, feels a bit incomplete. The book is also open to some minor stylistic criticism. The wealth of detail is sometimes disorienting, and more explicit signposting of the turning points in the argument would have been helpful. Also, what seem to be very interesting primary sources are too often paraphrased with only minimal quotation. It would have been nice to see more of the verbal texture of Smith’s thinking, or Bailey’s. Despite these concerns, for the depth of its sourcing, the comprehensiveness of its contextualization, and the thoroughness of its description of all aspects of the MNAS network, Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States should become an essential work in the history of American arts education.