Swamp Surburbia and Rebellion Against a Culture of Crime: The Birth Of Black Skateboarding in the Big Easy

Swamp Surburbia and Rebellion Against a Culture of Crime: The Birth Of Black Skateboarding in the Big Easy

This research addresses a significant gap in previous work on the formation of urban and suburban black skateboarding subcultures. By using data generated through oral histories, photographs, mapping, and literature review, this study explores why black youth initially began skateboarding in New Or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Aubrey
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2015
Subjects:
African American
black
youth
urban space
skateboarding
New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
Other Anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Urban Studies and Planning
Online Access:http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1968
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3099&context=td
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Summary:This research addresses a significant gap in previous work on the formation of urban and suburban black skateboarding subcultures. By using data generated through oral histories, photographs, mapping, and literature review, this study explores why black youth initially began skateboarding in New Orleans in the mid-2000s. In contrast to the scholarly literature and local popular perception, this visual anthropological study aims to provide an alternative origin story of black skateboarding in Post-Katrina New Orleans, and to examine the continuing popularity of the sport within the young black community.

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