Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan Contrary to prevailing notions that

Contrary to prevailing notions that it results solely from a person's diet and exercise failings

Readers follow along as the baby loon grows and discovers the world around her

and intervention strategies supported by practice experience and empirical evidence are addressed

and their writing has an elegiac quality

Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan Contrary to prevailing notions thatOn 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.