Memoryscapes of Race: Black Radical Parading Cultures of New Orleans

Lee, Ana Paulina

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00648

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Memoryscapes of Race: Black Radical Parading Cultures of New Orleans

Ana Paulina Lee

Ana Paulina Lee is Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Prior to joining the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans. She has been a Fulbright researcher and recipient of the Fundação Luso-Americana fellowship. Her articles, essays, and translations have appeared in book chapters and peer-reviewed journals including Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures, The Blackwell Companion to Luis Buñuel, The Global Studies Journal, e-misférica, and Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. [email protected]

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Ana Paulina Lee

Ana Paulina Lee is Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Prior to joining the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans. She has been a Fulbright researcher and recipient of the Fundação Luso-Americana fellowship. Her articles, essays, and translations have appeared in book chapters and peer-reviewed journals including Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures, The Blackwell Companion to Luis Buñuel, The Global Studies Journal, e-misférica, and Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2017

TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (2 (234)): 71–86.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00648

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In New Orleans, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs and Mardi Gras Indian parades transmit histories of “coming out” from devaluing practices of exclusion. These performances make apparent the city’s memoryscapes of race, the geographical dimensions of cultural memory that play a critical role in confrontations with regimes of racial formation and representation.

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