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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785310403321

Titolo

Culture after the hurricanes [[electronic resource] ] : rhetoric and reinvention on the Gulf Coast / / edited by M.B. Hackler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2010

ISBN

1-62103-254-X

1-282-91729-3

9786612917295

1-60473-491-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HacklerM. B

Disciplina

306.0976

Soggetti

Cultural industries - Louisiana

Cultural industries - Gulf States

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Social aspects

Hurricane Rita, 2005 - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: "Louisiana's New Oil": Planning for Culture on the New Gulf Coast; CHAPTER 1 Civic Culture and the Politics of Planning for Neighborhoods and Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans; CHAPTER 2 New Orleans Shotgun: A Historic Cultural Geography; CHAPTER 3 Soul Food: Katrina and the Culinary Arts; CHAPTER 4 Making Groceries: Food, Neighborhood Markets, and Neighborhood Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans; CHAPTER 5 Losing Ground: The Cultural Politics of Cultural Landscapes in Plaquemines Parish

CHAPTER 6 Hurricane Rita and the New Normal: Modified Communication and New Traditions in Calcasieu and Cameron ParishesCONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, with equal cases for assistance but with less attraction to future tourist dollars, languished. New Orleans and its surroundings contain a diverse



mixture of Native Americans, African Americans, Creoles, Cajuns, Isleños with roots in the Canary Islands, and the descendants of Italian, Irish, English, Croatian, and German immigrants, among others. Since 2005 much is now different for the people of the