"People from that Part of the World": The Politics of Dislocation.

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.