In His Element

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Naremore
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Experimental Mixture ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Mother And Daughter

Some of Burnett’s most characteristic and impressive work has taken the form of completely independent, very low budget short films that he has written, directed, photographed, and edited. These films return him to his beginnings as a sort of guerilla filmmaker who works in the streets. This chapter gives three examples: When It Rains (1995), a jazz fable about a neighborhood griot who tries to keep a mother and daughter from being evicted; The Final Insult (1997), an experimental mixture of documentary and fiction concerning homelessness in Los Angeles; and Quiet As Kept, a darkly comic film about a black family that has been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The chapter ends with a comment on Burnett’s work in progress and his continuing importance for us today.

Pediatric disaster preparedness in the medical setting: Integrating mental health

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD ◽  
Zorash Montano, BA ◽  
Sandra Shields, LMFT, ATR-BC, CTS ◽  
Nicole E. Mahrer, BA ◽  
Viktoria Vibhakar, LCSW, LMSW ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Medical Setting ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Psychological Harm ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

Introduction: The increasing prevalence of disasters worldwide highlights the need for established and universal disaster preparedness plans.The devastating events of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina have spurred the development of some disaster response systems. These systems, however, are predominantly focused on medical needs and largely overlook mental health considerations. Negative outcomes of disasters include physical damage as well as psychological harm. Mental health needs should be considered throughout the entire disaster response process, especially when caring for children, adolescents, and their families.Objective: To provide an overview and recommendations for the integration of mental health considerations into pediatric disaster preparedness and response in the medical setting.Methods: Recommendations were developed by a panel of disaster preparedness and mental health experts during the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Pediatric Disaster Resource and Training Center: Workshop on Family Reunification in Los Angeles, California, March 31-April 1, 2008. Experts discussed the inclusion of mental health-specific considerations and services at all stages of disaster preparedness and response. Recommendations involve the integration of mental health into triage and tracking, the adoption of a child ambassador model, environment, and developmentally appropriate interventions, education, communication, death notification, and family reunification.Conclusions: The inclusion of mental health concerns into pediatric disaster preparedness may help prevent further and unnecessary psychological harm to children and adolescent survivors following a disaster.

Ethics Askew: A Case Study Of Ethics In An Educational Environment

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Susan Shurden ◽  
Juan Santandreu ◽  
Mike Shurden
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Standards Of Conduct ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
E Mail

For a formal definition of ethics, Webster’s New World Dictionary (1995) defines the term as “the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment”. Ethics is important to individuals because we are concerned with what leaders do and who they are—their conduct and character. “Conduct” is a word that implies behavior. Behavior can change under differing circumstances. For instance, in a “low key”, unstressed situation, most individuals tend to be civil and polite; however, the introduction of stress factored into a scenario can totally change the dynamics of the situation, as well as the ability of those involved to “cope”. Stress can cause individuals to become hostile, rebellious, and oftentimes uncompromising. Stress introduced into a situation can also cause individuals to become unethical. For example, take natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 whereby individuals were under tremendous stress of discomfort from not having a clean environment in which to live, as well as conditions of hunger and thirst from lack of food and fresh water. Most of us have witnessed the television footage of the “looting” that occurred from these conditions. Or take the civil unrest that occurred in the streets of Los Angeles after the verdict of 1992 when police officers were acquitted of the beating of an African American named Rodney King. Again, anger and stress caused looting and violence to erupt in the streets. While these are “extreme” situations, the question arises as to how individuals cope with stress in an atmosphere where civility is taught and encouraged. For instance, consider a classroom situation where an assignment to produce an outcome is given with few rules, and the members of the group are from other classes, possibly even in other states. The means of communication for these individuals are e-mail, a relatively new virtual reality website, similar to face book, or telephone should one choose to use that method. This type of situation would most likely exist in a graduate program and in fact, did. This paper is a case study of just that type of situation.

To Sleep with Anger (1990)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Naremore
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
The South

This chapter discusses one of Burnett’s major achievements and the first of his films to be made under relatively normal Hollywood production circumstances. To Sleep with Anger tells the story of generational and class conflict within a black family in Los Angeles. Retired worker Gabriel and his wife, Susie, are visited by Harry, an old friend from the south, who becomes a houseguest. Soon after Harry’s arrival, strange things begin to happen. Gabriel falls ill, and his youngest son falls under Harry’s bad influence.

scholarly journals Writing the Grotesque in Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones"

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Katerina Psilopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Southern Gothic ◽  
Southern Writers ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Status ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Mode Of Production ◽  
The Grotesque

In her work, Jesmyn Ward has revitalized the Southern Gothic tradition and its tropes to better reflect the realities of Black American life in the 21st century. This essay explores the reconfiguration of the grotesque body in Ward's sophomore novel, Salvage the Bones, which follows an impoverished Black family in Mississippi in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. In contrast to her literary predecessors, Ward defines the grotesque as a state of debility imposed on Black bodies and then deemed uniquely problematic to them as a class and race, rather than the result of centuries of structural oppression. As such, she understands the trope as encompassing far more than bodily or intellectual difference, the way in which it was previously utilized by Southern writers like William Faulkner and Carson McCullers. Instead, Ward theorizes the grotesque as a biopolitical state, in which populations that do not conform to the status quo, and specifically the dominant capitalist mode of production and consumption, are driven to the margins and their lives deemed expendable. 

Structural racism and the urban geography of education

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Pedro A. Noguera ◽  
Julio Angel Alicea
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Barriers To Change ◽  
History Of

Although we often look to schools to solve complex social problems, many educators are not ready to address the structural racism behind many contemporary conflicts. Pedro Noguera and Julio Angel Alicia present a brief history of the socioeconomic forces that drove school closures and gentrification in Chicago, the remaking of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and generations of disadvantage in Los Angeles. By becoming aware of the structural barriers to change, educators will be better equipped to lead discussions with students about the need for justice in our society.

KATRINA, BLACK WOMEN, AND THE DEADLY DISCOURSE ON BLACK POVERTY IN AMERICA

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Ransby
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Primary Caretakers ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Black Poverty

This article explores the suffering and resilience of Black women who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005. It also explores the ways in which the pre-existing national discourse on poverty, race, and gender set the stage for victim blaming and the neglect of poor Black women and children after the storm. African American women in the Gulf Coast region are some of the poorest in the nation. Women in general are more vulnerable in times of natural disaster because they are the primary caretakers of the young and the old. These factors and others meant that poor Black women were among those most severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina. They also had minimal resources to cope with the disaster and its aftermath. However, instead of sympathy and support, some conservative pundits have sought to link the suffering caused by Katrina to the lack of patriarchal Black family structures, which they argue could have helped individuals survive in the crisis. Contrary to these stereotypes, many Black women have not only been resilient and self-reliant, but creative and heroic in the face of crisis. It is their stories that offer hope for the future of New Orleans and our nation.

Meridional Circulation, Turbulence, and Diffusion Processes in Stars

1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Vauclair
Keyword(s):  
Convection Zone ◽  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Meridional Circulation ◽  
Diffusion Time ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
First Results ◽  
Stellar Envelopes ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Turbulence And Diffusion ◽  
Hr Diagram

This paper gives the first results of a work in progress, in collaboration with G. Michaud and G. Vauclair. It is a first attempt to compute the effects of meridional circulation and turbulence on diffusion processes in stellar envelopes. Computations have been made for a 2 Mʘstar, which lies in the Am - δ Scuti region of the HR diagram.Let us recall that in Am stars diffusion cannot occur between the two outer convection zones, contrary to what was assumed by Watson (1970, 1971) and Smith (1971), since they are linked by overshooting (Latour, 1972; Toomre et al., 1975). But diffusion may occur at the bottom of the second convection zone. According to Vauclair et al. (1974), the second convection zone, due to He II ionization, disappears after a time equal to the helium diffusion time, and then diffusion may happen at the bottom of the first convection zone, so that the arguments by Watson and Smith are preserved.

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