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371	Urban Inflection: Negotiating Liminal Borders in New Orleans Everett, Brittney Lynn 27 July 2009 (has links) No description available. Architecture urbanism urban renewal border New Orleans social justice architecture narrative race Kevin Lynch Situationists Archigram conceptual project
372	"Performance and Resilience: Performance, Storytelling, and Resilience Building in Post-Katrina New Orleans" Becker, Sophia Colette January 2015 (has links) No description available. Environmental Justice Environmental Studies Performing Arts performance resilience digital storytelling New Orleans Katrina participant observation cultural memory
373	Playing His Own Game: Ernest 'Dutch' Morial's 1977 Mayoral Campaign for Citizen Participation in New Orleans Marshall, Eric 19 May 2017 (has links) Ernest “Dutch” Morial’s 1977 grassroots mayoral campaign disrupted the political status quo in New Orleans with his message of citizen participation. Morial’s citizen-driven campaign reached over the constituencies of established Black Political Organizations, capturing an eager audience with his message of political, social, and economic equality. With the help of volunteers and other community organizations, Morial created a grassroots campaign that focused on making city government more inclusive. Unattached to the traditional patronage structure, Mayor Morial empowered the black community, reducing the constraints of their political access. Although his legacy is difficult to discern in New Orleans current political realities, Morial’s first campaign and administrations represent a departure from the political status-quo and the powerful patronage structures critical to their status. Ernest 'Dutch' Morial Black Mayors New Orleans 1970s Civil Rights Black Politics African American Studies Oral History Political History United States History
374	If Only They Tried; The Complicated Crusade for Salvation in the Post-Katrina Education Reform Movement Wanamaker, Brooke 16 December 2016 (has links) Education reform is shifting the landscape of New Orleans public schools, where alternative certification programs are thriving and changing the demographics of core teachers. This study follows a Teach for America (TFA) Corps Member from 2007 (just after the historic flooding from Hurricane Katrina) who brought a promise of innovation through idealism and green wisdom. The teacher’s preparation and motivations are shown to be problematic. Examining the assumptions and privileges that underlie the import of inexperienced talent to urban education systems, this study considers the ways that community voices have been lost or undervalued in New Orleans schools. The thesis tracks five unique student experiences in two schools over nine years, with accounts of the daily life of students and educators, some of whom are effective and make marked contributions to the community. The study concludes that care should be taken as reform continues to make schools better for kids. education white privilege teaching New Orleans Teach for America gentrification Curriculum and Instruction Educational Methods Higher Education and Teaching Other Education
375	Jill Jackson: Pioneering in the Press Box Perkins, Katherine C 16 December 2016 (has links) Jill Jackson was one of the first female sports journalists and a pioneer voice for women in athletics. Although heretofore overlooked in the history of American sports journalism, the story of her career is an addition not only to the historiography of female sports journalists but also to the broader study of women in the mid-twentieth century. Jackson was admired, a hard worker, from a prominent New Orleans family, and well educated, yet she still was treated unequally in her primary workspace—the press box. Jackson left well-documented story to the Nadine Vorhoff Library and Special Collections at Newcomb College Institute in New Orleans. The collection, comprised of scrapbooks, photographs, letters, and newspaper articles, reveal the struggles and rewards of her impressive career. Jill Jackson Sports Women Journalists Sports Journalism New Orleans Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Law and Gender Radio Sports Studies Television Women's Studies
376	The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics Taylor, Nicole 20 May 2005 (has links) This study evaluates the public market system in New Orleans, Louisiana by focusing on the history of New Orleans public markets, the privatization of food, and the "greening" of the city with the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market and other grass roots food activist efforts. Using qualitative methods, ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and interviewing, issues of food access, food security, food production, food locality, quality, and affordability in New Orleans are explored. The history of public markets in New Orleans and the patterns of market proliferation, regulation, and privatization are significant in the landscape of cultural self-identification, community cohesion, neighborhood networks and economic and ecological development and sustainability. The city's various food shopping arenas and their locations become markers of history, status, rebellion, and of the "other," and become centers for issues of health, economy, politics, and food. New Orleans food access Food movements Community development Food activism Regulated free market Public health Food politics Grocery stores Farmers market Public market Food deserts Food security
377	Reassessment of a Community Mitigation Plan Post-Disaster: A Case Study of the University of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University Project Garrett, Ashley 22 May 2006 (has links) The following is a case study of the University of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University project. The Disaster Resistant University project involved the creation, adoption, and implementation of an all-hazards campus mitigation plan. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the City of New Orleans. This disaster caused the need for a reassessment of the original campus mitigation plan. Both the original plan, and its reassessment, are the subject of this case study. Mitigation Community University reassessment Mitigation plan Post-disaster University of New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Disaster resistant university project Emergency management Disaster Preparedness
378	Defending Desire: Resident Activists in New Orleans‟ Desire Housing Project, 1956-1980 Matsumaru, Takashi Michael 04 August 2011 (has links) The Desire Housing Project opened in 1956 as a segregated public housing development in New Orleans‟ Upper Ninth Ward. The Desire neighborhood, one of the few neighborhoods in the city where black homeownership had been encouraged, was transformed by the project. Hundreds of former Desire residents were displaced by the mammoth project, which became home to more than 13,000 residents by 1958. Built on what had once been a landfill, the Desire Housing Project came to epitomize the worst in public housing, before it was torn down by 2001. Although the project was isolated from the rest of the city and lacked basic services, residents worked to create a viable community, in spite of the pitfalls of segregation. Within the context of the civil rights movement, Desire residents fought to bring in basic services, pushing local government to more fully develop their neighborhood. History United States History
379	Storm Water Management Using a High Density Rainfall Network Along With Long Term Records Mokhtarnejad, Siamak N. 19 December 2008 (has links) The United States Weather Bureau had published Technical Paper No. 40 (TP-40) in 1961 which provides a rainfall atlas for the United States. These rainfall frequencies have been used by engineers throughout the United States including Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Rainfall from Audubon and the New Orleans International Airport rain gauge stations were used with the Log Pearson Method to provide rainfall frequency for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. The results from the frequency rainfall that were developed for this research along with the current Jefferson Parish design storm rainfall were applied to a typical urban development to evaluate the extent of flooding. Log Person Method Rainfall Frequency Audubon Rain Gauge Station Annual Series Partial Duration Series Area Rainfall Frequency
380	Troupers: Essays in Three Rings Pult, Jon 15 May 2009 (has links) Troupers: Essays in Three Rings is a collection of fourteen essays focused mainly on variety entertainers (including the author). It leads the reader through a menagerie of the author's own enthusiasms--from clowning and circus elephants, to hot jazz and the ukulele. While the primary occupation of the "troupers"spotlighted here has always been to delight audiences, many of them--both human and animal--could not escape the hardscrabble, the sundered relations, the violence of everyday life. The author tells the stories of these "troupers" here, stories that reveal both their suffering and their refusal to suffer. Circus Clowns Radio Ascona Switzerland Benny Goodman Ukulele Zoos Elephants Elephant executions Paris France New Orleans Jazz Lemon Nash Vaudeville Minstrelsy Cliff Edwards

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