Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters:
southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; …

In post-Katrina New Orleans, local government officials have represented neighborhood
recovery planning as a mechanism of shared governance, where all residents can …

This article analyzes the changing ways law enforcement agencies, city government
officials, and gentrifying resident constituencies have attempted to criminalize and surveil …

In “Decolonizing Ways of Knowing: Heritage, Living Communities, and Indigenous
Understandings of Place”, we build on the scholarly and artistic practice of deep memory …

This analysis of public parading in New Orleans extends a cultural sociology framework to
shed new light on the importance of public parades in the construction of meaning in the …

Disasters result from human practices that enhance the destructive effects of geophysical
phenomena and place certain sectors of an affected population at greater risk of harm …

During a recent Sunday afternoon parade in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Ronald
W. Lewis hosted a birthday party for his wife Charlotte, during which he grilled in his …

African American art is a term or a category that should rightly come with a range of
necessary caveats. Until relatively recently, the term could largely be understood as relating …

This study examines the process of historicization of the Black Mardi Gras Indians in the
HBO drama series Treme produced by David Simon and Eric Overmyer. Grounded in a …

Municipalities typically seek to control the production and distribution of sound through noise
and zoning ordinances. By virtue of sound's inherent properties, however, such ordinances …