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Author Crutcher, Michael Eugene, 1969- author.

Title Tremé : race and place in a New Orleans neighborhood / Michael E. Crutcher, Jr
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 166 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Geographies of justice and social transformation
Geographies of justice and social transformation.
Contents Creating black Tremé -- Afro-Creole Tremé -- The clearance for high culture -- Killing Claiborne's Avenue -- A park for Louis -- National park savior -- Saving black Tremé -- Epilogue: Post-Katrina Tremé
Summary Annotation Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg Trem neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture in New Orleans. Closely associated with traditional jazz and second line parading, Trem is now the setting for an eponymous television series created by David Simon (best known for his work on The Wire). Michael Crutcher argues that Trems story is essentially spatiala story of how neighborhood boundaries are drawn and take on meaning and of how places within neighborhoods are made and unmade by people and politics. Trem has long been sealed off from more prominent parts of the city, originally by the fortified walls that gave Rampart Street its name, and so has become a refuge for less powerful New Orleanians. This notion of Trem as a safe haventhe flipside of its reputation as a neglected placehas been essential to its role as a cultural incubator, Crutcher argues, from the antebellum slave dances in Congo Square to jazz pickup sessions at Joes Cozy Corner. Trem takes up a wide range of issues in urban life, including highway construction, gentrification, and the role of public architecture in sustaining collective memory. Equally sensitive both to black-white relations and to differences within the African American community, it is a vivid evocation of one of Americas most distinctive places
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject African American neighborhoods -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Community development -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Community life -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Urban policy -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Race identity -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
African American neighborhoods
African Americans -- Race identity
African Americans -- Social conditions
Community development
Community life
Urban policy
Louisiana -- New Orleans
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820337609
0820337609
1282899031
9781282899032
9786612899034
6612899034