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Interviewee
Barbara Kirn Paternostro; Jacob (Jack) Paternostro
Description
Lyndsey Neubel reflects on her upbringing in Slidell, Louisiana and her Sicilian family’s roots in the New Orleans area. Using frameworks of critical whiteness, she examines how the suburban environment of Slidell shaped her sense of self and heritage. Neubel’s grandfather tells her about their family’s immigration story, his Sicilian-American identity, and family life in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. Nuebel explores how racism, segregation, and white flight shaped urban space and the suburbanization of the North Shore. She then analyzes how these sociocultural dynamics affected her preconceptions about New Orleans when she began attending the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts to study dance.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Neighborhood Story Project
City
New Orleans
Keywords
Whiteness; Critical Whiteness; Race; Class; White flight; Suburbanization; Dance; Italian Americans; Sicilian Americans
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana; Slidell, Louisiana; Corleone, Italy; Palermo, Italy; Kenner, Louisiana; Treme;
Disciplines
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Nuebel, Lyndsey. “Loss and Renewal: My Sicilian Roots in New Orleans.” A Guide to South Louisiana: Stories of Uncommon Culture, edited by Rachel Breunlin, Neighborhood Story Project, 2017.
Comments
The ethnographies in Guide to South Louisiana were created by students in Rachel Breunlin’s “Storytelling and Culture” course for the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans in the Spring of 2017.