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Super Sunday is a historically Afri-can American carnival that takes place on the weekends surrounding St. Joseph's day ( March 19) .Parade participants wear elaborately beaded and feathered costumes made to resemble the cloth-ing of Native American Plains tribes and refer to themselves as Mardi Gras Indians.Like the mask-ing of Mardi Gras Indians, Second Line parading is a practice that emerged in response to the inequi-ties of racial discrimination in Southeastern Louisi-ana.Super Sunday and Second Line Parades e-merged as ritualized practices in the context of New Orleans'urban landscape, where residents denote and cultivate their racialized class identities by liv-ing in specific locations and by engaging in uses of urban space that distinguish them from those whom they perceive as their racial others.Second Line performers and Indians are organized in ranked roles that convey values and responsibilities deemed desirable in New Orleans'working class African American neighborhoods.The ranked of-fices of Mardi Gran Indian tribes and the social roles performed by Second Line groups are not just performed to be observed but are also meant to be experienced and imitated.And they are therefore part of the tacit process through which modalities of habitus are transmitted in many New Orleans neighborhoods.In addition to their role in the sha-ping of New Orleanians'durable dispositions, sec-ond Lines and Super Sunday are visually impres-sive practices that are unique to this city and are of appeal to tourists and visitors who “come to New Orleans looking for something spiritual”, in the words of Collins ‘Coach'Lewis, member of the Mandingo Warriors Mardi Gras Indian Tribe.