You Found Us Doing This, This Is Our Way

Criminalizing Second Lines, Super Sunday, and Habitus in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18992695
AutoresR E Barrios (0009-0008-2215-7232, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume17
Fascículo6
Páginas586-612
Data de publicação2010-12-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIdentities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1070289x.2010.533522
OpenAlexW2039525231
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas18

This article analyzes the changing ways law enforcement agencies, city government officials, and gentrifying resident constituencies have attempted to criminalize and surveil disposition-forming rituals and daily social practices of African American working class New Orleanians before and after Hurricane Katrina. The rituals and practices discussed include pedestrian parades known as Second Lines and Super Sunday. The article demonstrates that the criminalization and surveillance of these practices must be understood in light of the role played by socially structured space in the production of racialized class differences among New Orleanians. In the post-Katrina context, the city's mandatory evacuation enabled gentrifying resident constituencies and expert urban planners to imagine the city's reconstruction as something to be achieved through the creation of architectonic relationships conducive to cycles of capital investment. These visions of urban recovery have ignored the importance residents of affected neighborhoods place on the reinstatement of the city's pre-Katrina population, which is responsible for the production of Second Lines and Super Sunday. This article explores how the policing, surveillance, and criminalization of Second Lines and Super Sunday have historically operated as mechanisms for upholding hegemonic orders, and the intimate connections between planning, race, and gentrification in the US

Criminalization · Criminology · Economic growth · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure