Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy

Index

Index 271 African American Heritage Preservation Council, 131 Allen, Theodore, 231n23 Almaguer, Tomas, 231n23 Alsayyad, Nezar, 215n18 American Missionary Association, 64 Anderson, Elijah, 246n30 Appadurai, Arjun, 133, 180, 216n22, 242n39, 248n17 Aquarium of the Americas, 146–47, 149 Arthur, Chester, 47, 51 Arts Council of New Orleans, 9, 130, 209 Association of Commerce. See New Orleans Chamber of Commerce Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), 218n34 Audubon Institute, 8, 146–47 Audubon Park, 51 Augustin Advertising and Information Bureau, 224n58 Authenticity, 3, 6, 115, 205; connections to tourism, 48–55, 89, 95–97, 138–39, 195–96, 205, 207–8; contested category , 164, 166–67; creole, 29–30, 83– 85; emergent, 252n19; French Quarter, 87–89; liminal practices, 157–59; Mardi Gras celebration, 29–30, 40–44, 90–94, 176–78, 180, 182–87; networks , 87–89; nostalgia, 138–39, 150– 57; racial constructions of at World’s Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915), 76– 80; racial politics, 60–64, 80–85, 93– 94; repertoire of, 20, 150–67; social construction of, 12–13; staged, 5; super krewes, 174–81; World’s Fairs in the construction of, 53–60, 65–68 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 224n63 Barthel, Diane, 131, 242n36 Barthelemy, Sidney, 125, 126, 182, 188 Baumbach, Richard O., 237n44, 237n49 Beauregard, Robert, 155, 246n32 Beck, Ulrich, 133, 242n39 Behrman, Martin, 76 Belle, Caryn Cosse, 223n48 Benjamin, Walter, 67, 228n66 Bennett, James B., 228n58 Bernard, Karl, 25, 219n9 Bernardi, Daniel, 79, 231n22 Big Easy, 96–97, 135 Biles, Roger, 231n27 Blassingame, John W., 220n16 Boggs, Lindy Clairborne, 127 Bolding, Gary, 225n14, 230n17 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 214n14 Boorstin, Daniel, 164, 215n18, 247n49 Borah, William, 237n44, 237n49 Bourbon Street, 147, 148, 166 Bourdieu, Pierre, 164, 165, 195, 247n48, 247n51, 251n58 Bourgoyne, J. E., 142, 238n53, 244n1 Boyd, Michelle, 252n26 Boyer, M. Christine, 56, 226n32 Brand Strategy, Inc., 133, 138, 242n40 Branding, 8, 10, 19, 20, 216n21; experiential brand, 138–39; jazz music, 138–39; New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau (NOMCVB), 136; New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation (NOTMC), 136–37; niche marketing, 136–38; post-Katrina era, 139–41 Brando, Marlon, 85 Brennan, Owen “Pip” Jr., 174 Bring New Orleans Back Commission (BNOB), 199 Brodkin, Karen, 231n23 Brookings Institution, 15, 218n32 Brown, Laura Clark, 232n41, 232n43 Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 62, 63 Bryman, Alan, 215n20, 247n52 Burke, Edward Austin, 47, 50, 62 Burns, Ken, 4 Cable, George Washington, 56, 65, 74 Canal Place, 114, 143, 144 Canal Street, 70, 72, 102, 147 Canclini, N. G., 216n23 Carnival: and authenticity, 29–30, 40–44, 90–94, 176–78, 180, 182–87; colonial and antebellum eras, 23–30, 32–33; Congo Square, 24; early black celebrations , 24; masquerade balls, 24–25, 27, 30; newspaper reports on demise of, 28–29, 41–42; nineteenth-century travel accounts of, 24–26; nostalgia, 29–30, 42–43; public and private spheres of, 32; race during Reconstruction years, 37–39; railroad coverage of, 66–67; satirical imagery in parades, 39–40; social clubs, 34–35. See also Mardi Gras Carnival balls, 32, 41, 194; for visitors, 90–92 Carnival krewes, 9, 30–32, 189, 209; authenticity work of, 43–44, 66–67, 174– 80; female social clubs, 44; national coverage, 66; old-line krewes, 32, 44, 66, 70, 94; social clubs, 31–32, 34; social exclusion, 31–34, 43–44. See also Old-line krewes; Super krewes Carnival season, 18, 22, 23 Carter, Dan T., 223n53 Castells, Manuel, 217n24 Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 102 Chang, T. C., 234n6 Charbonnet, Louis A., 127 Charles, Alfred, 248n9 Charles, Robert, 64 Chatterton, Paul, 136, 146, 215n20, 243n48, 245n13 Chopin, Kate, 74 Civic Beautification Association of Garden Clubs, 111 Civil Rights Act of 1875, 39 Civil Rights Movement, 98, 101–2 Clark, Terry Nichols, 203, 242n43, 252n13 Clarkson, Jackie, 183 Cocks, Catherine, 6, 214n17, 225n11, 230n19 Cohen, Erik, 252n19 Coleman, William H., 74, 55, 65, 225n30 Collective memory, 74, 89, 123, 131, 233n48 Collins, Claudia C., 17, 219n36 Commodification, 8, 10, 19, 67–68, 70, 137–38, 180; Greater New Orleans Tourist and Convention Commission (GNOTCC), 105–7; Louisiana World Exposition (1984), 129; Mardi Gras, 90–92, 189–96 Community Arts Center (CAC), 9, 130, 217n25 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 102 Connick, Harry, Jr., 187 Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), 14–15, 90; budgets and organization of, 104–5 Council for a Better Louisiana, 116–17 Cowbellions, 33 Craig, Frank S., Jr., 238n1 Crang, Mike, 214n16, 239n10 Creighton, Paul W., 119 Creole, 5, 27, 29, 30, 220n20...