Title Uprooted : race, public housing, and the archaeology of four lost New Orleans neighborhoods / D. Ryan Gray

Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series Archaeology of the American South : new directions and perspectives Archaeology of the American South. Contents Renewing New Orleans, past and present -- Subjectivity, race, and the birth of public housing in New Orleans -- St. Thomas : effacing heterogeneity in the Irish Channel -- Magnolia : creating order in Belmont -- Lafitte : gender, race, and Creole color along Orleans Avenue -- Iberville : desexualizing space at Storyville Summary "This book is an archaeological investigation of four New Orleans neighborhoods that were replaced by public housing projects around World War II. Each of these neighborhoods was identified as a "slum" historically, but the material record challenges the simplicity of this designation. Gray provides evidence of the inventiveness of former residents who were marginalized by class, color, or gender, whose everyday strategies of survival, subsistence, and spirituality challenged the city's developing racial and social hierarchies. Slum clearance at the national scale was a form of erasure, in which whole neighborhoods and their all-too-complicated realities were obliterated from the built environment of cities across the United Sates. In New Orleans, from the St. Thomas Housing Project, which replaced the working-class riverfront Irish Channel, to Iberville, constructed over what remained of the Storyville red light district, the logics of clearance inevitably revolved around the complexities of race. This work uses both documents and archaeological data to examine what this entailed at a variety of scales, reconstructing narratives of the households and communities affected by clearance. Public housing, both in New Orleans and elsewhere, imposed a new kind of control on urban life that had the effect of making cities both more segregated and more unequal. The story of the neighborhoods that were destroyed provides a reminder that this was not an inevitable outcome, and that a more equitable and just city is still possible today"-- Provided by publisher Notes "A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 18, 2020) Subject Public housing -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century Neighborhoods -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century Material culture -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Urban archaeology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Material culture Neighborhoods Public housing Race relations Social conditions Urban archaeology SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780817392772 0817392777

Other Titles Race, public housing, and the archaeology of four lost New Orleans neighborhoods

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