Rachel Carrico
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  • About
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching
  • Performance
  • Contact
  • Work Samples
Rachel Carrico

Scholarship

ACADEMIC ARTICLES & ANTHOLOGY CHAPTERS
"Second Lining In and Beyond New Orleans." In The Futures of Dance Studies, eds. Susan Manning, Janice Ross, and Rebecca Schneider. University of Wisconsin Press. Forthcoming, 2019.

“Miss Antoinette K-Doe and Her Baby Dolls.” In Contemporary Scholars and Artists Respond to the Baby Dolls of New Orleans, ed. Kim Vaz-Deville. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 


“Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans Second Line.” Oxford Handbook on Dance and Competition, edited by Sherril Dodds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Un/Natural Performances: Second Lining and Hurricane Katrina.” TBS: The Black Scholar 46, no. 1 (2016): 27-36.

“On Thieves, Spiritless Bodies, and Creole Soul: Dancing through the Streets of New Orleans.” TDR: The Drama Review 57, no. 1 (2013): 70-87. 

“Lakeviews: A Bus Tour as a Vehicle for Regrowth in New Orleans.” TDR: The Drama Review 53, no 1 (2008): 190-196.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS 
“Flying High: Function and Form in New Orleans Second Line Dancing,” co-authored with Esailama G. A. Diouf-Henry. In Freedom’s Dance: The Second Line in New Orleans by Eric Waters. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017.

"Sartorial Sundays: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs Craft Impeccable Style for the Streets" by Rachel Carrico; interviews with Edward Buckner and Sue Louis Press. Loving Hands, New Orleans and Elsewhere: Sewing and Textiles in Essays, Stories, Poems, and Images, eds. Lee Meitzen Grue and Susan Tucker. New Orleans: New Laurel Review Press, 2017.

Second Liner Series in Data News Weekly (2014-15), http://ladatnews.com.

​“Jan Gilbert,” KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana, edited by David Johnson. Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities (2013). 
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Download many of my publications in pdf format here.

In 2015-16, I curated the Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies around the theme of
Dance, Racism, Resistance. Click here for more information.