Thomas 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.
Thomas 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.
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
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
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