Amari Johnson is an independent scholar, musician, and filmmaker based in Philadelphia.

"This important book is an absorbing examination of the aims and possibilities of the ‘maroon impulse’ in Black life and culture in New Orleans. The eclectic use of autoethnographic vignette, memory, critique, and ethnography creates a compelling account that makes invaluable interventions in education studies, Black studies, geography, and anthropology." - J.T. Roane, author of Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

• Contents Introduction: Beyond the Gong 1. No Place in Babylon: The Maroon Impulse 2. West Bank Is the Best Bank: Algiers and the Unseen Presence as Landscape 3. Black Star, Keep Shining: Invisibility as Cloak 4. “They Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Nothin’, Y’heardme?”: Fugitivity and the Educational Landscape 5. The Seed of Our Ancestors: Kamali Academy and Navigating the Impulse 6. Black in the Whirlwind: Hole in the Wall as Portal Coda: BlackStar Forever Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Amari Johnson is an independent scholar, musician, and filmmaker based in Philadelphia.

"This important book is an absorbing examination of the aims and possibilities of the ‘maroon impulse’ in Black life and culture in New Orleans. The eclectic use of autoethnographic vignette, memory, critique, and ethnography creates a compelling account that makes invaluable interventions in education studies, Black studies, geography, and anthropology." - J.T. Roane, author of Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

• Contents Introduction: Beyond the Gong 1. No Place in Babylon: The Maroon Impulse 2. West Bank Is the Best Bank: Algiers and the Unseen Presence as Landscape 3. Black Star, Keep Shining: Invisibility as Cloak 4. “They Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Nothin’, Y’heardme?”: Fugitivity and the Educational Landscape 5. The Seed of Our Ancestors: Kamali Academy and Navigating the Impulse 6. Black in the Whirlwind: Hole in the Wall as Portal Coda: BlackStar Forever Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Amari Johnson is an independent scholar, musician, and filmmaker based in Philadelphia.

"This important book is an absorbing examination of the aims and possibilities of the ‘maroon impulse’ in Black life and culture in New Orleans. The eclectic use of autoethnographic vignette, memory, critique, and ethnography creates a compelling account that makes invaluable interventions in education studies, Black studies, geography, and anthropology." - J.T. Roane, author of Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

• Contents Introduction: Beyond the Gong 1. No Place in Babylon: The Maroon Impulse 2. West Bank Is the Best Bank: Algiers and the Unseen Presence as Landscape 3. Black Star, Keep Shining: Invisibility as Cloak 4. “They Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Nothin’, Y’heardme?”: Fugitivity and the Educational Landscape 5. The Seed of Our Ancestors: Kamali Academy and Navigating the Impulse 6. Black in the Whirlwind: Hole in the Wall as Portal Coda: BlackStar Forever Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index