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Map 5. Stationary Revelations: Sites of Contemplation and Delight

On a Strange Island
© 2013 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2013 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction. Sinking In and Reaching Out 1
  4. Map 1. A City in Time: La Nouvelle-Orléans over 300 Years 13
  5. Map 2. Ebb and Flow: Migrations of the Houma, Erosions of the Coast 19
  6. Map 3. People Who 25
  7. Map 4. Moves, Remains: Hiding and Seeking the Dead 34
  8. Map 5. Stationary Revelations: Sites of Contemplation and Delight 37
  9. Map 6. Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature 50
  10. Map 7. Of Levees and Prisons: Failures of Containment, Surges of Freedom 55
  11. Map 8. Civil Rights and Lemon Ice: Three Lives in the Old City 64
  12. Map 9. Sugar Heaven and Sugar Hell: Pleasures and Brutalities of a Commodity 67
  13. Map 10. ¡Bananas! 73
  14. Map 11. Hot and Steamy: Selling Seafood, Selling Sex 82
  15. Map 12. The Mississippi Is (Not) the Nile: Arab New Orleans, Real and Imagined 88
  16. Map 13. The Line-Up: Live Oak Corridors and Carnival Parade Routes 94
  17. Map 14. Repercussions: Rhythm and Resistance across the Atlantic 100
  18. Map 15. Thirty-Nine Sundays: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs Take It to the Streets 107
  19. Map 16. Bass Lines: Deep Sounds and Soils 116
  20. Map 17. Where Dey At: Bounce Calls Up a Vanished City 121
  21. Map 18. Snakes and Ladders: What Rose Up, What Fell Down During Hurricane Katrina 127
  22. Map 19. St. Claude Avenue: Loss and Recovery on an Inner-City Artery 133
  23. Map 20. Juju and Cuckoo: Taking Care of Crazy 142
  24. Map 21. Lead and Lies: Mouths Full of Poison 147
  25. Map 22. Waterland 154
  26. Acknowledgments 159
  27. Contributors 163
Unfathomable City
This chapter is in the book Unfathomable City
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520356023-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction. Sinking In and Reaching Out 1
  4. Map 1. A City in Time: La Nouvelle-Orléans over 300 Years 13
  5. Map 2. Ebb and Flow: Migrations of the Houma, Erosions of the Coast 19
  6. Map 3. People Who 25
  7. Map 4. Moves, Remains: Hiding and Seeking the Dead 34
  8. Map 5. Stationary Revelations: Sites of Contemplation and Delight 37
  9. Map 6. Oil and Water: Extracting Petroleum, Exterminating Nature 50
  10. Map 7. Of Levees and Prisons: Failures of Containment, Surges of Freedom 55
  11. Map 8. Civil Rights and Lemon Ice: Three Lives in the Old City 64
  12. Map 9. Sugar Heaven and Sugar Hell: Pleasures and Brutalities of a Commodity 67
  13. Map 10. ¡Bananas! 73
  14. Map 11. Hot and Steamy: Selling Seafood, Selling Sex 82
  15. Map 12. The Mississippi Is (Not) the Nile: Arab New Orleans, Real and Imagined 88
  16. Map 13. The Line-Up: Live Oak Corridors and Carnival Parade Routes 94
  17. Map 14. Repercussions: Rhythm and Resistance across the Atlantic 100
  18. Map 15. Thirty-Nine Sundays: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs Take It to the Streets 107
  19. Map 16. Bass Lines: Deep Sounds and Soils 116
  20. Map 17. Where Dey At: Bounce Calls Up a Vanished City 121
  21. Map 18. Snakes and Ladders: What Rose Up, What Fell Down During Hurricane Katrina 127
  22. Map 19. St. Claude Avenue: Loss and Recovery on an Inner-City Artery 133
  23. Map 20. Juju and Cuckoo: Taking Care of Crazy 142
  24. Map 21. Lead and Lies: Mouths Full of Poison 147
  25. Map 22. Waterland 154
  26. Acknowledgments 159
  27. Contributors 163
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