The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans and Intangible Heritage

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.04.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives and Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Strategies
  5. Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Appendix A: California Standards
  8. Notes:

New Orleans: Human Gifts, Human Lessons

Stephanie Martina Schaudel

Published September 2011

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Notes:

  1. Wilson, Kathleen. "Circum-Atlantic Performance to History: Response to Joseph Roach," 15-16. (emphasis added).
  2. UNESCO, "What is Intangible Heritage?" http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00002 (accessed July 18, 2011).
  3. Andrei Codrescu, New Orleans: Mon Amour, jacket.
  4. Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, The Mysteries of New Orleans, 3.
  5. Mary Gehman, "Introduction," in The Free People of Color in New Orleans: An Introduction, 2.
  6. Conversation in "The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans and Intangible Heritage" seminar with Joseph Roach.
  7. "Black Code", in Collection of Regulations, Edicts, Declarations, and Decrees Concerning the French Colonies in America, translated by Olivia Blanchard, 370-373.
  8. Ibid, 372.
  9. Joseph Roach, in seminar, July 13, 2011.
  10. "Black Code", 371-372.
  11. Joseph Roach highlights "the beauty of Afro-Catholicism" as practiced in New Orleans: it "opened up the space for all of these other religious traditions". Seminar conversation, July 18, 2011.
  12. Mary Gehman, 4.
  13. Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, 57.
  14. Mary Gehman, 8.
  15. Joseph Roach, lecture in New Haven, May 7, 2011.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Ned Sublette, 282.
  18. Larry Hayes, in Lee, If God is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise.
  19. Mary Gehman, 12.
  20. Ibid, 30. Gehman writes of a ban specifically upon bringing slaves from St. Domingue.
  21. Ned Sublette, 122-123.
  22. Ned Sublette, 123.
  23. Ibid, 59.
  24. Mike Tidwell, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast, 26.
  25. Joseph Roach, in seminar, July 18, 2011.
  26. Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster, 7.
  27. Ibid.
  28. Ibid, 5.
  29. Ibid, 145.
  30. Douglas Brinkley, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 2. (emphasis added).
  31. Andrei Codrescu, 132.
  32. Joseph Roach, in seminar, July 2011.
  33. Ibid, 2.
  34. Mike Tidwell, 11.
  35. Ibid, 6.
  36. "An American Experience: New Orleans," Public Broadcasting Service, December 2006, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/neworleans/peopleevents/p_butler.html (accessed July 28, 2011).
  37. Douglas Brinkley, 8.
  38. Joel K. Bourne, Jr., "New Orleans: A Perilous Future" in National Geographic, 2.
  39. Ibid.
  40. Ibid.
  41. Douglas Brinkley, 59.
  42. Michael Eric Dyson, 55.
  43. Ibid.
  44. Michael Eric Dyson, 56.
  45. Josh Neufeld, A.D.: After the Deluge, from introduction.
  46. Ibid.
  47. David Brinkley, 1.
  48. Ibid, 4.
  49. Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, vii.
  50. Joel K. Bourne, Jr., 5.
  51. Joseph Roach, July 7, 2011.
  52. See Joel K. Bourne, Jr.'s extensive article for more on the geographic risks.
  53. Mark Schleifstein, "Gulf Coast restoration panel leader gets details on Louisiana land loss", The Times-Picayune, January 6, 2011, http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/01/gulf_coast_restoration_panel_l.html (accessed August 4, 2011).
  54. Conversation in "The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans and Intangible Heritage" seminar with Joseph Roach.
  55. Joseph Roach, in seminar, July 12, 2011.
  56. Ibid, 67.
  57. Dyson, 27.
  58. Ibid, 31.

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