Remaking New Orleans : Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity /

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The contributors to Remaking New Orleans challenge the uncritical acceptance of New Orleans-as-exceptional narratives, showing how they flatten the diversity, experience, and culture of the city's residents and obscure other possible understandings.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sakakeeny, Matt, 1971-, Adams, Thomas Jessen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ethnology.
Manners and customs.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Ethnologie > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Ethnology > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > In popular culture.
New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
New Orleans (La.) > Politics and government > 21st century.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • La Catrina : the Mexican specter of New Orleans / Shannon Lee Dawdy
  • Charles Gayarre and the imagining of an exceptional city : the literary roots of the Creole city / Rien Fertel
  • Phony city : under the skin of authenticity / Aaron Nyerges
  • "Things you'd imagine Zulu tribes to do" : the Zulu parade in New Orleans Carnival / Felipe Smith
  • The saga of the junkyard dog / Bryan Wagner
  • Local, native, Creole, Black : claiming belonging, producing autochthony / Helen A. Regis
  • The contradictions of the film welfare economy, or, For the love of Treme / Vicki Mayer, Heidi Schmalbach, and Toby Miller
  • "Queers, fairies, and ne'er-do-wells" : rethinking the notion of a sexually liberal New Orleans / Alecia Long
  • Building Black suburbs in New Orleans / Vern Baxter and Maria Casati
  • Refugee pastoralism : Vietnamese American self-representation in New Orleans / Marguerite Nguyen
  • Boosting the private sector : Federal aid and downtown development in the 1970s / Megan French-Marcelin
  • What's left for New Orleans? The people's reconstruction and the limits of Anarcho-Liberalism / Cedric G. Johnson
  • Neoliberal futures : post-Katrina New Orleans, volunteers, and the ongoing allure of exceptionalism / Vincanne Adams
  • The myth of authenticity and its impact on politics in New Orleans and beyond / Adolph Reed Jr.

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