{"product_id":"remaking-new-orleans-9781478001829","title":"Remaking New Orleans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, \u003ci\u003eRemaking New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts.\" -- Andru Okun * Antigravity *\u003cbr\u003e\"In a crowded field of New Orleans–centered, post-Katrina scholarship, \u003ci\u003eRemaking New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e—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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Adams and Sakakeeny’s \u003ci\u003eRemaking New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e represents a remarkable collection of stories…. Topically, the volume enriches our historical geography of the city.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Eric Nost * Southeastern Geographer *\u003cbr\u003e“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.... \u003ci\u003eRemaking New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds in rendering an indictment against seeing this city as exceptional rather than exemplary.” -- J. Mark Souther * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: What Lies beyond Histories of Exceptionalism and Cultures of Authenticity \/ Thomas Jessen Adams, Sue Mobley, and Mat Sakekeeny  1\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Constructing Exceptional New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e 1. La Catrina: The Mexican Specter of New Orleans \/ Shannon Lee Dawdy  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Charles Gayarré and the Imagining of an Exceptional City: The Literary Roots of the Creole City \/ Rien Fertel  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Phony City: Under the Skin of Authenticity \/ Aaron Nyerges  72\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Producing Authentic New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Things You'd Imagine Zulu Tribes to Do\": The Zulu Parade in New Orleans Carnival \/ Felipe Smith  93\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Saga of the Junkyard Dog \/ Bryan Wagner  117\u003cbr\u003e 6. Local, Native, Creole, Black: Claiming Belonging, Producing Autochthony \/ Helen A. Regis  138\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Contradictions of the Film Welfare Economy, or, For the Love of \u003ci\u003eTreme\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Vicki Mayer, Heidi Schmalbach, and Toby Miller  162\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. What Is New Orleans Identity?\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"Queers, Fairies, and Ne'er-Do-Wells\": Rethinking the Notion of a Sexually Liberated New Orleans \/ Alecia P. Long  179\u003cbr\u003e 9. Building Black Suburbs in New Orleans \/ Vern Baxter and Maria Casati  199\u003cbr\u003e 10. Refugee Pastoralism: Vietnamese American Self-Representation in New Orleans \/ Marguerite Nguyen  219\u003cbr\u003e Part Four. Predictive City?\u003cbr\u003e 11. Boosting the Private Sector: Federal Aid and Downtown Development in the 1970s \/ Megan French-Marcelin  241\u003cbr\u003e 12. What's Left for New Orleans? The People's Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism \/ Cedric G. Johnson  261\u003cbr\u003e 13. Neoliberal Futures: Post-Katrina New Orleans, Volunteers, and the Ongoing Allure of Exceptionalism \/ Vincanne Adams  288\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Myth of Authenticity and Its Impact on Politics—in New Orleans and Beyond \/ Adolph Reed Jr.  307\u003cbr\u003e References  327\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  351\u003cbr\u003e Index  355","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408972128599,"sku":"9781478001829","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001829.jpg?v=1730504917","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/remaking-new-orleans-9781478001829","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}