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Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan and their writing has anOn 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.