Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan Readers follow along as the

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By showing how literary reading sets in motion a tense interplay of intimacy and exclusion

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and treatment outcomes Uses critical theories to explore the intersections of religion

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Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan Readers follow along as theOn many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours. Though an increasingly popular attraction for tourists, parading provides the second liners themselves with a potent public expression of Black resistance. Rachel Carrico examines the parading bodies in motion as a form of negotiating and understanding power.