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