The article responds to the paper "Learning From New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship," by George Lipsitz in this issue. The author uses Lipsitz's methodology of critique to strengthen the consciousness of countermemories and alternative social warrants. It is pointed out that learning to listen brings in all the harmonics, virtuosities and counterpoints.
The article responds to the paper "Learning From New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship," by George Lipsitz in this issue. The author considers Lipsitz's work in relation to ethnographic efforts to analyze the characteristics of the complex changes in everyday life. The concept of social warrant is considered to be linked to cultural activism and critique.
The article responds to the paper "Learning From New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship," by George Lipsitz in this issue. The politics of dislocation and relocation and the politics of different mappings of the U.S. are examined. Rap music and murals are declared to be forms of an American cultural critique that employs symbolic-iconic registers and direct political consciousness.