Second Lines Of New Orleans
Nicole Hall
Anthropology
November 9, 2015
Second Lines in New Orleans
On the morning of August 29, 2005 was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the United States, known
as Hurricane Katrina struck the south coast of New Orleans, leaving thousands of African American
whom lived in Treme homeless, missing and hundreds dead. Way before the hurricane Treme,
which is one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in New Orleans. The city of New
Orleans is officially divided into 73 neighborhoods grouped into 13 planning districts. Among these,
the 4th district is of interest because of its central location, cultural history, and socio economic
challenges confronted prior to the catastrophe (Barrios, 2). The reason why the 4th district was so ...
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These cultural things are beginning to change. People that have been here a short time, and I
mean twenty years is a short time, twenty years or less. They want the second lines to clean up
after themselves... Growing up in Treme, you had a bar, a church, and a funeral home, so you
knew where your family was (Barrios, 14). Cheryl Austin caused much commotion with his
comments and sparked attention with Pierre Bourdieu, who describes her as recently, arrived
outsiders. For me, if you did not grow up here, you cannot appreciate living here. People who
think like that, people who want Treme transformed, could go anywhere and dismantle what was
there and build what they wanted. For outsiders, the most important thing here is the building.
For us, it is our culture, for us, that is, what we consider community, not the buildings (Barrios,
15). Both Austin and Bourdieu make two completely point about the way they view their culture
difference of Treme. To my knowledge what Austin was trying to interpret his view is that when
he grew up in Treme, it was all about being free and being comfortable around your own
neighborhood, which I absolutely agree with. I wouldn t want to live in a neighborhood where I
couldn t feel free to do what I want to do, like sitting on the privacy of my own home and drinking
a beer without being judge and that what the
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