“Like We Lost Our Citizenship”

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.5406/illinois/9780252037832.003.0011 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Marguerite Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Vietnamese Americans ◽

Educational Success ◽

International Media ◽

Vietnamese American ◽

Before And After ◽

The Media ◽

The City

This concluding chapter examines representations of Vietnamese Americans before and after Hurricane Katrina. The recuperation of American political and military might in the 1980s marked a transition in representations of Vietnamese Americans, as the New Orleans media began to focus on stories of Vietnamese American economic and educational “success.” Nevertheless, Vietnamese Americans lived more or less under the radar until about thirty years later, when they were once again thrust into the media limelight because of their quick return and recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Once potential objects of New Orleans exclusion, Vietnamese Americans now represented the city at its best, with national and international media outlets upholding the community's efforts as a story of hope and achievement in the aftermath of disaster.

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Student Affairs and Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Perspectives from Five Institutions of Higher Education in New Orleans

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1762 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Susan K Gardner ◽

Kristy Miller ◽

Marco J Barker ◽

Jennifer Loftin ◽

Marla Erwin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Decision Making ◽

Student Affairs ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Institutions Of Higher Education ◽

Policy Practice ◽

Before And After ◽

Institutional Contexts ◽

Public Versus Private

Fifteen student affairs administrators from five institutions of higher education in New Orleans were interviewed regarding their experiences immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina and how the crisis affected their work. Participants were chosen for their diversity among racial, gender, and institutional contexts. Analyses of the interviews resulted in four themes that describe the differences between how public versus private institutional cultures affected these administrators responses and the decision making that occurred in the wake of the storm. These themes include (a) decision making, (b) communication, (c) resources and limitations, and (d) student affairs status. Implications for policy, practice, and research are included.

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The Greening of Euro 2016: Fan Footage, Representational Tropes, and the Media Lionization of the Irish in France

Television & New Media ◽

10.1177/1527476417741201 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 96-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Neil O’Boyle ◽

Colm Kearns

Keyword(s):

News Coverage ◽

Northern Irish ◽

Corporate Sponsor ◽

International Media ◽

Irish Identity ◽

Football Fans ◽

The Media ◽

Nation Brand ◽

The City

This article considers the representation of Irish identity in the media-sport discourse surrounding Euro 2016 in France. The behavior of Irish football fans attracted considerable attention in both the domestic and international media, and they were praised for their friendliness, helpfulness, and goodwill while in France. This media lionization eventually culminated in the Irish fans being awarded (jointly with their Northern Irish neighbors) the Medal of the City of Paris in July 2016. In this article, we examine how fan footage, taken on smartphones and uploaded to the video-hosting site YouTube (mostly by Irish fans themselves), featured centrally in news coverage of the tournament and fed a wider discourse about Irish identity, which relied on longstanding representational tropes. In concluding the article, we reflect on the paratextual significance of Euro 2016 for the Irish football team’s corporate sponsor Three, and more broadly, for Ireland as a nation brand.

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The Changing Face of Trauma: New Orleans Before and After Hurricane Katrina

Yearbook of Critical Care Medicine ◽

10.1016/s0734-3299(09)79226-3 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2010 ◽

pp. 312-314

Author(s):

D.J. Dries

Keyword(s):

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Before And After

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Katrina Seven Years On: The Politics of Race and Recovery— Notes on a Roundtable Organized for the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096513001017 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 46 (04) ◽

pp. 748-752

Author(s):

Christine L. Day

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Annual Meeting ◽

Gulf Coast ◽

Racial Justice ◽

Fair Housing ◽

Cultural Revival ◽

Politics Of Race ◽

The City

AbstractAfter Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, flooding the city of New Orleans for several weeks after levees collapsed, the city struggled to recover and rebuild. Scholars and activists participating in the roundtable, “Katrina Seven Years On: The Politics of Race and Recovery,” at the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, were to discuss recovery and racial justice in post-Katrina urban planning and rebuilding efforts, grassroots movements, job recovery, fair housing, and cultural revival. Although the 2012 meeting was canceled as Hurricane Isaac threatened New Orleans anew, panelists offered their observations and ideas to be summarized forPSreaders.

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“Choosing to Stay”

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/0096144215576332 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 115-139

Author(s):

Anja Nadine Klopfer

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Power Relations ◽

Local Environment ◽

Local Identity ◽

Intimate Knowledge ◽

The City

Oral histories of the Hurricane Katrina experience abound in stories of conscious decisions to “ride out the storm.” My article explores the narrative of “choosing to stay” as an empowering narrative rooted in assertions of place-knowledge and traces its historical genealogy to the nineteenth century. I argue that claiming agency in New Orleans and articulating a sense of belonging and local identity through professed intimate knowledge of the local environment took shape as a strategy of resistance against dominant discourses of American progress after the Civil War. Ultimately, this counternarrative of connecting to place as “homeland,” drawing on knowledge arising from lived experience, defied the normative twist of modernization, simultaneously reformulating power relations within the city. “Choosing to stay” thus turns out to be a long-lasting narrative not only of disaster, but of place, belonging, and community; without understanding its historical layers, we cannot fully make sense of this particular Katrina narrative.

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AFTER THE STORM: In the Wake of Katrina

Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race ◽

10.1017/s1742058x05050198 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 155-158

Author(s):

Michael C. Dawson ◽

Lawrence D. Bobo

Keyword(s):

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Social Economic ◽

Gulf Coast ◽

The Political ◽

Large Share ◽

Loss Of Life ◽

The Social ◽

The Many ◽

The City

By the time you read this issue of the Du Bois Review, it will be nearly a year after the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina swept the Gulf Coast and roiled the nation. While this issue does not concentrate on the disaster, (the next issue of the DBR will be devoted solely to research on the social, economic, and political ramifications of the Katrina disaster), the editors would be amiss if we did not comment on an event that once again exposed the deadly fault lines of the American racial order. The loss of the lives of nearly 1500 citizens, the many more tens of thousands whose lives were wrecked, and the destruction of a major American city as we know it, all had clear racial overtones as the story unfolded. Indeed, the racial story of the disaster does not end with the tragic loss of life, the disruption of hundred of thousands of lives, nor the physical, social, economic, and political collapse of an American urban jewel. The political map of the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana (and probably Texas), and the region is being rewritten as the large Black and overwhelmingly Democratic population of New Orleans was dispersed out of Louisiana, with states such as Texas becoming the perhaps permanent recipients of a large share of the evacuees.

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Differences in post-disaster mental health among Vietnamese and African Americans living in adjacent urban communities flooded by Katrina

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0255303 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (8) ◽

pp. e0255303

Author(s):

Mengxi Zhang ◽

Mark VanLandingham ◽

Yoon Soo Park ◽

Philip Anglewicz ◽

David M. Abramson

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

African American ◽

African Americans ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Housing Stock ◽

Short Form ◽

Vietnamese Americans ◽

Disaster Mental Health ◽

Post Disaster

Some communities recover more quickly after a disaster than others. Some differentials in recovery are explained by variation in the level of disaster-related community damage and differences in pre-disaster community characteristics, e.g., the quality of housing stock. But distinct communities that are similar on the above characteristics may experience different recovery trajectories, and, if so, these different trajectories must be due to more subtle differences among them. Our principal objective is to assess short-term and long-term post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese and African Americans living in two adjacent communities in eastern New Orleans that were similarly flooded by Hurricane Katrina. We employ data from two population-based cohort studies that include a sample of African American adults (the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health [GCAFH study]) and a sample of Vietnamese American adults (Katrina Impacts on Vietnamese Americans [KATIVA NOLA study]) living in adjacent neighborhoods in eastern New Orleans who were assessed near the second and thirteenth anniversaries of the disaster. Using the 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12) as the basis of our outcome measure, we find in multivariate analysis a significant advantage in post-disaster mental health for Vietnamese Americans over their African American counterparts at the two-year mark, but that this advantage had disappeared by the thirteenth anniversary of the Katrina disaster.

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After the Flood

City of a Million Dreams ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469647142.003.0015 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 298-326

Author(s):

Jason Berry

Keyword(s):

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Fourth Century ◽

Development Projects ◽

Mardi Gras ◽

Social Controversy ◽

Black Indians ◽

Diverse Society ◽

Life Force ◽

The City

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, killing over 1,000 people and displacing over 1 million. As the rebuilding process began, musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, and Social Aid and Pleasure Club members began trickling back. Culture prevailed as politics failed. The life force of music and memory, determined to survive, came back to the shattered city. The hurricane wasn’t the only devastating force: the city had undertaken many urban development projects in Tremé throughout the second half of the 20th century, demolishing historical areas and displacing people. New Orleans has also long suffered from government corruption, and several politicians were arrested throughout the 2000s. Yet hope and vibrancy abound. The 2014 funeral for Larry Bannock, Big Chief of the Golden Starhunters, drew a large gathering of black Indians in a magnificent cultural spectacle. Amidst much political and social controversy, Mayor Mitch Landrieu removed the Robert E. Lee statue from the city in 2017. As New Orleans begins its fourth century, it faces issues of gun violence, poverty, and gentrification, but opportunities from a flourishing digital economy, resurgent music scene, and cultural mecca as well. It is still the vibrant, diverse society composed of people whose roots lie across the world, whose resilience has been a rudder through the storms and violent upheavals throughout the centuries.

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Free at Last: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Future of Conspiracy

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875810001258 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 601-611 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ALLISON GRAHAM

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Hurricane Katrina ◽

New Orleans ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

First Year ◽

Deep South ◽

Guest Workers ◽

The Us ◽

Definition Of ◽

The City

In the first year following Hurricane Katrina and the breaking of the New Orleans levees, the New Orleans-based Alliance of Guest Workers for Dignity and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of eighty-two workers from South and Central America who were stranded in the city. By 2008, the consequences of the regional reliance on slavecatchers began attracting global attention, most notably in the case of the eighty-nine Indian workers at Signal International's Pasacagoula, Mississippi shipyard. This essay explores the invocation of the American civil rights movement in contemporary transcultural dramas and the fact that another “universal” movement has been marching alongside new protesters, and demonstrates that the Free Trade movement in the US has been not only the cause of many current civil rights struggles, but also the beneficiary of the older struggle's very definition of its “cause.” New laborers in the Deep South – Latin Americans and Asians – find themselves not just homeless, but placeless post-Katrina. Black Americans who were shipped out of the city in 2005 to provide a “cleansed” urban area open to new demographics now find themselves in permanent exile, as placeless as their replacements.

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