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Rationale: Now that a year has passed since Hurricane Katrina traumatized New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,horrifying so many of us in this country and around the world with images and narratives of intense suffering and deprivation,it is time to look back and assess.What have we learned? What do we do now? Has history repeated itself? Will there be a new surge in the arts to translate and transmit the emotions stirred up by this disaster?
Context: Katrina exists within a historical context. In 1927, there was a flood in the Mississippi Delta region comprising several states,including Mississippi,Louisiana,and Florida. The authorities' response to that disaster bears an uncanny resemblance to the response to Katrina.In both disasters,many African Americans were not evacuated in a timely fashion.And Katrina.In both disasters,many African Americans were not evacuated in a timely fashion.And artistic expression from many blues musicians.
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Marathon reading of segments from the Harlem Renaissance novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God". Writtn by Zora Neale Hurston, the novel includes a segment that takes place during the 1927 flood.
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Introduction: Kathleen Teehan, Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management. More dates... |
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And then the waters came.
Circulating recently on the web was an article about the history of Georgetown, a fashionable and pricey neighborhood in D.d., made trendy in the 1960's by then the first lady Jackie Kennedy. The author's sixteen-year-old son was working on a class project in the nineteenth to a slaveholder, who listed the slaves he owned like so many oxen. The foundation on which the house stands includes a mysterious dark and dank space not high enough for anyone to stand. Read more... |
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A year in the life: The city that was
The saying goes "old habits die hard," and for me, this is true. In the warning days of August 2005, I watched as Tropical Depression 12 moved slowly through the warm waters of the Caribbean, organized and intensifed as it headed toward the florida cost. Read more... |
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Baghdad in the Crescent City
I've been cut by a tainted blade. Scarlet and deep is the cut. The Crescent City has marked my spirit. New Orleans is hot and wet. The air drowns people in humidity and the wind sits lazily on a cloud, evaporating as it passes across the sun. More than just another place, it is the place. New Orleans is Elysian fields wearing a mask. Read more... |
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Coming to a Realization
Late last August, like so many others around the world, i sat glued to Hurricane Katrina news coverage and the now infamous images of African Americans and their indictment of American politics and policies. In my case, i was desperate for information about my husband and family members who had remained in our New Orleans home during the storm. Read more...
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