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Prayers for the people : homicide and humanity in the Crescent City
\"Rebecca Carter's Prayers for the People explores the intersection of urban life, death, and social and spiritual transformation in New Orleans's diverse religious communities. Following, in particular, the \"Liberty Street Baptist Church,\" a predominantly black congregation in the Crescent City neighborhood, Carter shows how its ministers preach hope amid the despair of grieving mothers of young black men who fall victim to homicide.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Treme
Across Rampart Street from the French Quarter, the Faubourg Tremé neighborhood is arguably the most important location for African American culture in New Orleans. Closely associated with traditional jazz and \"second line\" parading, Tremé is now the setting for an eponymous television series created by David Simon (best known for his work onThe Wire).
Michael Crutcher argues that Tremé's story is essentially spatial-a story of how neighborhood boundaries are drawn and take on meaning and of how places within neighborhoods are made and unmade by people and politics. Tremé has long been sealed off from more prominent parts of the city, originally by the fortified walls that gave Rampart Street its name, and so has become a refuge for less powerful New Orleanians. This notion of Tremé as a safe haven-the flipside of its reputation as a \"neglected\" place-has been essential to its role as a cultural incubator, Crutcher argues, from the antebellum slave dances in Congo Square to jazz pickup sessions at Joe's Cozy Corner.
Tremétakes up a wide range of issues in urban life, including highway construction, gentrification, and the role of public architecture in sustaining collective memory. Equally sensitive both to black-white relations and to differences within the African American community, it is a vivid evocation of one of America's most distinctive places.
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Whose right to (farm) the city? Race and food justice activism in post-Katrina New Orleans
Among critical responses to the perceived perils of the industrial food system, the food sovereignty movement offers a vision of radical transformation by demanding the democratic right of peoples “to define their own agriculture and food policies.” At least conceptually, the movement offers a visionary and holistic response to challenges related to human and environmental health and to social and economic well-being. What is still unclear, however, is the extent to which food sovereignty discourses and activism interact with and affect the material and social realities of the frequently low-income communities of color in which they are situated, and whether they help or hinder pre-existing efforts to alleviate hunger, overcome racism, and promote social justice. This research and corresponding paper addresses those questions by examining food justice and food sovereignty activism in the city of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina as understood by both activists and community members. I argue, using post-Katrina New Orleans as a case study, that food projects initiated and maintained by white exogenous groups
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of communities of color risk exacerbating the very systems of privilege and inequality they seek to ameliorate. This paper argues for a re-positioning of food justice activism, which focuses on systemic change through power analyses and the strategic nurturing of interracial alliances directed by people residing in the communities in which projects are situated.
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Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map: Race, Place, and Transformation in Desire, New Orleans
In this article, we consider how long-term patterns of resistance to structural violence inform citizens' responses to displacement before and after Katrina. Drawing on Abdou Maliq Simone's (2004) conceptualization of people as infrastructure, we recenter the discussion about the rebuilding of New Orleans around displaced residents, taking the place-making practices of members of a social club as a lens through which to examine the predicament of the city as a whole. Members have been generating alternative ways of thinking about and dwelling together in a restructuring city. Their perspectives are articulated through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and the embodied practices of club members and their followers as they make claims to the city through massive, participatory street processions known as second lines. These distinctive ways of thinking and being in the city-the subaltern mainstream of the second-line tradition-are now being deployed by exiled New Orleanians reconsidering their relationship to home.
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The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Food Access Disparities in New Orleans
Disparities in neighborhood food access are well documented, but little research exists on how shocks influence such disparities. We examined neighborhood food access in New Orleans at 3 time points: before Hurricane Katrina (2004–2005), in 2007, and in 2009. We combined existing directories with on-the-ground verification and geographic information system mapping to assess supermarket counts in the entire city. Existing disparities for African American neighborhoods worsened after the storm. Although improvements have been made, by 2009 disparities were no better than prestorm levels.
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Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Katrina
Hurricane Katrina has been interpreted as both a \"metaphor\" for the racial inequality that characterizes urban America and as a purely \"natural\" disaster that happened to strike a predominantly Black city. To resolve these conflicting interpretations, the author analyzes data on New Orleans residents who died during Katrina in an effort to provide an empirical look at the groups most directly affected by the hurricane. Contrary to prior reports in the popular press, the author finds that the impact of the storm was felt most acutely by the elderly population in New Orleans and by Blacks, who were much more likely to die than would be expected given their presence in the population. Data on the locations of recovered bodies also show that Katrina took its largest toll in New Orleans's Black community. These findings confirm the impression that race was deeply implicated in the tragedy of Katrina.
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Housing, Race, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina
The destruction of private and public housing in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina was greatest among African Americans due to historic settlement patterns. Data for 13 planning districts within Orleans Parish (the city of New Orleans proper) that document the extent of housing destruction, the distribution of population by race, and the share of returned population at 2 and 5 year points across these planning districts are evaluated using correlation analysis. The finding is that the return of African Americans to New Orleans is significantly less than that of other groups and is associated with the greater housing destruction in neighborhoods with the highest percentages of African Americans. An analysis of the structure and impact of the Road Home program for private housing and of the initiatives of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Housing Authority of New Orleans provides evidence of racial discriminatory policies and practices that contributed to the racial disparity in the African American return to New Orleans. It is suggested that political leaders paid more attention to the interests of developers and big businesses in the restoration of New Orleans than to the interests of the predominantly black working class in the city.
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Evaluating Racial Disparities in Hurricane Katrina Relief Using Direct Trailer Counts in New Orleans and FEMA Records
Are charges of racial disparities in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's relief efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina accurate? Limited publicly available data on trailer distribution in New Orleans are compared to an on-site trailer count and to a complete trailer count from aerial photographs of New Orleans. The Lower Ninth Ward in Orleans Parish (98 percent Black prior to Hurricane Katrina) had significantly fewer trailers than neighboring Arabi in St. Bernard Parish (95 percent White prior to Hurricane Katrina). To control for administrative differences between parishes and socio economic factors, two affluent neighborhoods within Orleans Parish, Pontchartrain Park (97percent Black prior to Hurricane Katrina), and Lakeview (94 percent White prior to Hurricane Katrina), are compared. The conclusion: racial discrepancies remain large and substantial. A number of hypotheses are developed and the implications discussed.
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Rebuilding the Park: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood
The devastation of Hurricane Katrina unveiled the legacy of racial and class stratification in New Orleans, Louisiana. Much of the Katrina-related research has focused primarily on how poor Black neighborhoods were disproportionately affected by the disaster. While this body of research makes valid claims, there has been very little research that examines how Black middle-class residents in New Orleans were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. This study examines how residents in Pontchartrain Park, a Black middle-class neighborhood, are responding to the disaster. The author uses in-depth interviews, ethnographic observations, and archival data to examine the barriers that residents are facing in the recovery process. She argues that the experiences of the Black middle class also have implications for the connectedness of race and class. The challenges discussed within the article are linked to a history of racial stratification.
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Five years and beyond
On August 29, 2005, the City of New Orleans was irrevocably changed by the unprecedented destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the breached levees. In the nearly 6 years following those tragic events, recovery within the city has proved unequal, sporadic, and contentious depending on where one lived and ones equitable access to resources for rebuilding. The altered physical and socio-political terrain of post-Katrina New Orleans continuously presents obstacles for citizens still striving to return and rebuild their homes and their lives. For African Americans, in particular, the revised and evolving landscape challenges their ability to reenter the city and their damaged neighborhoods, and reposition themselves as viable stakeholders in post-Katrina New Orleans. With the release of the 2010 Census, it was revealed that between 2000 and 2010, the African American population decreased by 118,526, and according to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center African Americans were considered least likely to return to the area following Hurricane Katrina. In the year immediately following the storm, the African American population comprised 57.8% of the city population; by 2010, the numbers had increased to 61.3%, yet pre-storm African Americans constituted 67.3% of the population. African American women constituted the largest segment of the population. In an August 2010 Fact Sheet released by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, it was revealed that prior to the storm in 2005, African American women represented 69.7% of the female population in the city; by 2008 they constituted 63.6%. Following the storm the African American womens population had decreased by 35.4%. While the city had experienced a steady decline in population in the decade preceding the storm, the effects of the hurricane appear to have irrevocably shifted its racial and ethnic composition juxtaposing the loss of African Americans with growth in the Latino and Asian communities. Adapted from the source document.
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