Diverse Linguistic Communities and English “Fluency” in New Orleans

2019 ◽  
pp. 259-278
Author(s):  
Shane Lief
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
English Fluency ◽  
The City ◽  
Linguistic Communities

In this chapter, Shane Lief offers an overview of new population communities in the city of New Orleans and explores the challenges faced by some of those communities.

Dreaming New Orleans

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-39
Author(s):  
Joseph Roach
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
A Streetcar Named Desire ◽  
The City

Having passed the tercentenary of the “Mississippi Bubble” of 1720, the financial fiasco that accompanied the founding of New Orleans, the city continues to risk everything by gambling on the collateral of its dreams. Like Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, “The City that Care Forgot” is playing out a mortgage melodrama under constant threat of dispossession, dreading the last stop on an itinerary that begins with Desire, changes at Cemeteries, and dead ends in Elysian Fields.

Bricks in the Making of Race and Place: Excavating a Lieu de Souvenir in New Orleans

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Angel Adams Parham
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The City ◽  
Race And Place

This essay facilitates a multi-dimensional immersion into the life and rhythms of New Orleans, an entrée to the past that equips us to better understand the present and, from there, critically and creatively to envision our possible futures together. We explore the Faubourg Tremé by traversing layers of its lieux de souvenir - places of remembering, a concept inspired by but distinct from Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire - across three time periods. Each lieu de souvenir we visit from 1720 to the present will highlight material and symbolic foundations in Tremé that help us to understand key aspects of New Orleans’s past and present. The object that will guide our travel and meditation through each layer is the lowly but highly serviceable brick. At a purely material level, bricks are the literal building blocks of the city. Roads were paved with them and homes and other buildings were constructed with bricks as well. And at a symbolic level, bricks carry multiple rich and complex significations: Who makes them? How does their manufacturing shape the lives of the laborers who create them? Who buys them, and who profits from their sale? Tracing the brick and its uses throughout each lieu de souvenir sheds light on key social relationships, inequalities, and cultural practices that form the foundation of New Orleans’s past and present.

The Builder and the Priest

2018 ◽  
pp. 115-142
Author(s):  
Jason Berry
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Church Law ◽  
The City

Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe, an architect who had previously worked in Washington D.C. before running afoul of President Madison, arrived in New Orleans with his family in 1819 after his son Henry’s death. Latrobe was surprised by many things in the city, including the racial and cultural diversity, the dances in Congo Square, African funeral customs, and the cruel treatment of slaves. He documented much of what he saw in his journal and drawings. Latrobe died on September 3, 1820 from yellow fever, leaving behind a widow and an unfinished waterworks construction for the city. General Lafayette visited New Orleans in 1825 as part of his tour of America, and the city funded a lavish reception for him. Antonio Sedella’s indifference to church law throughout his long tenure led to more clashes with the Vatican, who tried and failed to oust him a second time in 1815. Sedella died on January 19, 1829, receiving a grand state funeral and leaving behind a lasting legacy. His death began the slow transition from a Church in solidarity with slaves to one attached to white supremacy and the cause of the Confederacy.

The City with Imaginary Walls

2019 ◽  
pp. 94-142
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
European Descent ◽  
The World ◽  
Civic Community ◽  
The City

This chapter shows that racial formation was also shaped by the relationships French New Orleans maintained with its hinterland. Racial tensions were instrumental in developing a sense of collective belonging among urban dwellers of European descent that was defined in confrontation with the world beyond the city’s imaginary walls. The Natchez Wars in 1729–1731 and slave unrest afterward played a crucial role in the construction of the Louisiana capital as a white civic community. In contrast, for the slaves living on the plantations nearby, the urban center increasingly symbolized both a place of greater autonomy and a place of repression.

New Orleans in Montréal : The Cradle of Jazz in the City of Festivals

Géocarrefour ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Michael Darroch
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
The City

“This Complicated, Colossal Failure”

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Leyda
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
The City

The character of Creighton Bernette on the HBO series Treme, in his excesses and abjection, embodies post-Katrina New Orleans in crucial ways: physical and emotional excesses become ways to distance his character from viewers, in ways analogous to the othering of the city and its inhabitants in post-Katrina media and public discourses.

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