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New Orleans, Louisiana, signifies a black city. Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, however, has accelerated the erosion of black spaces in post-Katrina New Orleans. Efforts to disrupt the erosion of urban black spaces require a more comprehensive conceptualization of the urban black space than that found in the existing body of scholarship. The purpose of my chapter presentation is to advance a multidisciplinary conceptualization of urban black space. A conceptualization of the urban black space, moreover, that acknowledges its socio-historical formation, its significance to the urban landscape of New Orleans, and its struggle to exist in post-Katrina New Orleans. I argue that urban black spaces in post-Katrina New Orleans depend on public spaces and on the publicness of private spaces. My presentation explores the inseparability that bonds blackness and publicness. As a case-in-point, I detail and theorize the erosion of public housing in post-Katrina New Orleans.