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OverviewApproached as a wellspring of cultural authenticity and historical exceptionality, New Orleans appears in opposition to a nation perpetually driven by progress. Remaking New Orleans shows how this narrative is rooted in a romantic cultural tradition, continuously repackaged through the twin engines of tourism and economic development, and supported by research that has isolated the city from comparison and left unquestioned its entrenched inequality. Working against this feedback loop, the contributors place New Orleans at the forefront of national patterns of urban planning, place-branding, structural inequality, and racialization. Nontraditional sites like professional wrestling matches, middle-class black suburbs, and Vietnamese gardens take precedence over cliched renderings of Creole cuisine, voodoo queens, and hot jazz. Covering the city's founding through its present and highlighting changing political and social formations, this volume remakes New Orleans as a rich site for understanding the quintessential concerns of American cities. Contributors. Thomas Jessen Adams, Vincanne Adams, Vern Baxter, Maria Celeste Casati Allegretti, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Rien Fertel, Megan French-Marcelin, Cedric G. Johnson, Alecia P. Long, Vicki Mayer, Toby Miller, Sue Mobley, Marguerite Nguyen, Aaron Nyerges, Adolph Reed Jr., Helen A. Regis, Matt Sakakeeny, Heidi Schmalbach, Felipe Smith, Bryan Wagner Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Jessen Adams , Matt SakakeenyPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781478001829ISBN 10: 1478001828 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 17 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments ix Introduction: What Lies beyond Histories of Exceptionalism and Cultures of Authenticity / Thomas Jessen Adams, Sue Mobley, and Mat Sakekeeny 1 Part One. Constructing Exceptional New Orleans 1. La Catrina: The Mexican Specter of New Orleans / Shannon Lee Dawdy 35 2. Charles Gayarré and the Imagining of an Exceptional City: The Literary Roots of the Creole City / Rien Fertel 55 3. Phony City: Under the Skin of Authenticity / Aaron Nyerges 72 Part Two. Producing Authentic New Orleans 4. ""Things You'd Imagine Zulu Tribes to Do"": The Zulu Parade in New Orleans Carnival / Felipe Smith 93 5. The Saga of the Junkyard Dog / Bryan Wagner 117 6. Local, Native, Creole, Black: Claiming Belonging, Producing Autochthony / Helen A. Regis 138 7. The Contradictions of the Film Welfare Economy, or, For the Love of Treme / Vicki Mayer, Heidi Schmalbach, and Toby Miller 162 Part Three. What Is New Orleans Identity? 8. ""Queers, Fairies, and Ne'er-Do-Wells"": Rethinking the Notion of a Sexually Liberated New Orleans / Alecia P. Long 179 9. Building Black Suburbs in New Orleans / Vern Baxter and Maria Casati 199 10. Refugee Pastoralism: Vietnamese American Self-Representation in New Orleans / Marguerite Nguyen 219 Part Four. Predictive City? 11. Boosting the Private Sector: Federal Aid and Downtown Development in the 1970s / Megan French-Marcelin 241 12. What's Left for New Orleans? The People's Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism / Cedric G. Johnson 261 13. Neoliberal Futures: Post-Katrina New Orleans, Volunteers, and the Ongoing Allure of Exceptionalism / Vincanne Adams 288 14. The Myth of Authenticity and Its Impact on Politics—in New Orleans and Beyond / Adolph Reed Jr. 307 References 327 Contributors 351 Index 355"ReviewsIn a crowded field of New Orleans-centered, post-Katrina scholarship, Remaking New Orleans-albeit ironically-is a true standout. ... It would make a fitting text for an upper-year undergraduate seminar or graduate-level course on, for example, cities and neoliberalism. -- Gregg Lightfoot * Journal of Southern History * Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, Remaking New Orleans parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts. -- Andru Okun * Antigravity * Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, Remaking New Orleans parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts. -- Andru Okun * Antigravity * Adams and Sakakeeny's Remaking New Orleans represents a remarkable collection of stories.... Topically, the volume enriches our historical geography of the city. -- Eric Nost * Southeastern Geographer * In a crowded field of New Orleans-centered, post-Katrina scholarship, Remaking New Orleans-albeit ironically-is a true standout. ... It would make a fitting text for an upper-year undergraduate seminar or graduate-level course on, for example, cities and neoliberalism. -- Gregg Lightfoot * Journal of Southern History * Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, Remaking New Orleans parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts. -- Andru Okun * Antigravity * Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, Remaking New Orleans parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts. -- Andru Okun * Antigravity * In a crowded field of New Orleans-centered, post-Katrina scholarship, Remaking New Orleans-albeit ironically-is a true standout. ... It would make a fitting text for an upper-year undergraduate seminar or graduate-level course on, for example, cities and neoliberalism. -- Gregg Lightfoot * Journal of Southern History * Adams and Sakakeeny's Remaking New Orleans represents a remarkable collection of stories.... Topically, the volume enriches our historical geography of the city. -- Eric Nost * Southeastern Geographer * Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, Remaking New Orleans parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts. -- Andru Okun * Antigravity * In a crowded field of New Orleans-centered, post-Katrina scholarship, Remaking New Orleans-albeit ironically-is a true standout. ... It would make a fitting text for an upper-year undergraduate seminar or graduate-level course on, for example, cities and neoliberalism. -- Gregg Lightfoot * Journal of Southern History * Adams and Sakakeeny's Remaking New Orleans represents a remarkable collection of stories.... Topically, the volume enriches our historical geography of the city. -- Eric Nost * Southeastern Geographer * The editors Thomas Jessen Adams an Matt Sakakeeny and their contributors offer a welcome, convincing, and overdue rebuke of representations of New Orleans as a city lying outside broader contexts.... Remaking New Orleans succeeds in rendering an indictment against seeing this city as exceptional rather than exemplary. -- J. Mark Souther * Journal of American History * The authors present provocative questions.... This collection will be useful to scholars of urban history, cultural studies, and all those who are fascinated by New Orleans. -- Ella Howard * Journal of American Culture * Author InformationThomas Jessen Adams is Lecturer in History and American Studies, Academic Director of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and coeditor of Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans. Matt Sakakeeny is Associate Professor of Music at Tulane University and author of Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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