ENG 101: English Composition I - Gray: Hurricane Katrina

Search for books in the HELM catalog.

Check the Library's newspaper databases and other sources for popular information on Hurricane Katrina:

Here are some specific news articles about Hurricane Katrina and racial disparities:

• "Analysis: President Bush, Katrina and African-Americans." Day To Day, 15 Sept. 2005. Gale Literature Resource Center, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A161876296/LitRC?u=mlin_b_roxbury&sid=LitRC&xid=bc438f7f. Accessed 30 Oct. 2020.
• Cabrera, Claudio. “Poll Indicates Racial Divide Widening after Hurricane Katrina.” New York Amsterdam News, vol. 96, no. 38, 15 Sept. 2005, p. 4. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=18876499&site=eds-live.
• "Calling Katrina Survivors 'Refugees' Stirs Debate." Hurricanes Archive on NBCNews.com, 7 Sept. 2005, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9232071/ns/us_news-katrina_the_long_road_back/t/calling-katrina-survivors-refugees-stirs-debate/#.Xp8bb_5KjOQ.
• "In Katrina Commemoration, Obama Cites Inequities 'Brewing for Decades'." CNN Wire, 27 Aug. 2015. Gale Academic OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A432300704/AONE?u=mlin_b_roxbury&sid=AONE&xid=db73c305. Accessed 30 Oct. 2020.
• Williams, Nikesha Elise. "Katrina battered Black New Orleans. Then the recovery did it again." Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020. Gale Academic OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A633747481/AONE?u=mlin_b_roxbury&sid=AONE&xid=83c1cbbe. Accessed 30 Oct. 2020.

Ebooks about black culture in New Orleans:

Scholarly articles about black culture in New Orleans:

• Lee, Ana Paulina. "Memoryscapes of Race: Black Radical Parading Cultures of New Orleans." The Drama Review, vol. 61, no. 2, 2017, pp. 71–86, http://ezproxyrcc.helmlib.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edspmu&AN=edspmu.S1531471517200058&site=eds-live.
• Grams, Diane M. “Freedom and Cultural Consciousness: Black Working-Class Parades in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Journal of Urban Affairs, vol. 35, no. 5, Dec. 2013, pp. 501–529, doi:10.1111/juaf.12026.
• George, Courtney. “From Bounce to the Mainstream: Hip Hop Representations of Post-Katrina New Orleans in Music, Film and Television.” European Journal of American Culture, vol. 35, no. 1, Mar. 2016, pp. 17–32, doi:10.1386/ejac.35.1.17_1.
• Palmer, Zella. “Belle New Orleans: The History of Creole Cuisineres.” Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 11, no. 6, Apr. 2018, pp. 186–191, http://ezproxyrcc.helmlib.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=141616305&site=eds-live
• Wehmeyer, Stephen C. “Marching Bones and Invisible Indians: African American Spiritualism in New Orleans, Past and Present.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 4, Summer 2010, pp. 43–60, http://ezproxyrcc.helmlib.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=54293026&site=eds-live
• Hobbs, Holly. “‘I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow’: Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans.” Southern Spaces, May 2015, doi:10.18737/M7W59R.
• DeVore, Donald E. “Water in Sacred Places: Rebuilding New Orleans Black Churches as Sites of Community Empowerment.” Journal of American History, vol. 94, no. 3, Dec. 2007, pp. 762–769, doi:10.2307/25095137.
• Spitzer, Nick. “Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond.” Southern Spaces, Nov. 2011, doi:10.18737/M7430T.