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Africa in New Orleans: Creole Complexities in Racist America
Ist Teil von
African arts, 2013-06, Vol.46 (2), p.86-87
Ort / Verlag
55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1315, USA: University of California
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Drewal considers the expressions of an imagined Africa in the minds, streets, museums, markets, homes, and festivities of New Orleans and deals with issues of identity, self-definition, and especially agency. In contrast, white New Orleans Mardi Gras performance is one of distanced observation by passive crowds lining the boulevards as huge floats ride by dispensing throws to spectators--a racial and social hierarchy enacted with references to the KKK and enforcers on horseback. The same dichotomy can be seen in the West Indian Parade on Labor Day in Brooklyn, NY--between the neighborhood-based acoustic steel bands and their posses that control the streets from about 3 AM till 10 AM as part of J'Ouvert, versus the massive policed and barricaded event--the official afternoon parade down Eastern Parkway where fanciful groups ride high on floats and blare electronic music to the crowds corralled behind barriers.