Civic engagement in the wake of Katrina / / Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors.
"Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced." ---Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Wesleyan University &q...
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| Superior document: | The new scholarship |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor, MI : : University of Michigan Press,, [2009]. ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New public scholarship.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) :; PDF, digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents ; Introduction; SECTION 1. COPING WITH DISASTER; "Bring Your Own Chairs" Civic Engagement in Postdiluvial New Orleans; A Reciprocity of Tears Community Engagement after a Disaster; Not Since the Great Depression The Documentary Impulse Post-Katrina; Another Evacuation Story; SECTION 2. NEW BEGINNINGS; The Vision Has Its TimeCulture and Civic Engagement in Postdisaster New Orleans; How to Raise an Army (of Creative Young People); The Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps The Story of a Local CBO's Response to Restoring Youth Programs in New Orleans after Katrina and Rita
- Welcoming the Newcomers Civic Engagement among Pre-Katrina LatinosSECTION 3. INTERCONNECTIONS; Cultural Policy and Living Culture in New Orleans after Katrina; HOME, New Orleans University/Neighborhood Arts Collaborations; Interview with Don Marshall, Executive Director of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation; Afterword Civic Engagement Is a Language-What Can Universities Learn from Public Cultural Work in New Orleans?; Contributors; Index