Under a Black Star : The Maroon Impulse in New Orleans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Amari.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kamali Academy.

BlackStar Books and Caffé (Algiers, New Orleans, La.).

Maroons--Influence.

Maroons.

Black towns--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Black towns.

African Americans--Race identity--Louisiana--New Orleans.

African Americans.

African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.

Algiers (New Orleans, La.)--Social conditions.

Algiers (New Orleans, La.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Demonstrating that marronage is a cultural tradition throughout the African Diaspora, Amari Johnson focuses on the transtemporal maroon process to show how it is central to the pursuit of autonomy, community, and freedom. Taking the BlackStar Community in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans as a case study, this dynamic ethnographic memoir offers strategies for similar communities across the country and around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Beyond the gong

No place in Babylon : the maroon impulse

West Bank is the best bank : Algiers and the unseen presence as landscape

Black star, keep shining : invisibility as cloak

"They ain't talkin' 'bout nothin', y'heardme?" : fugitivity and the educational landscape

The seed of our ancestors : Kamali Academy and navigating the impulse

Black in the whirlwind : hole in the wall as portal

Coda: BlackStar forever.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4529-7329-6

OCLC:

1521498836