Map 13. The Line-Up: Live Oak Corridors and Carnival Parade Routes

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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