Re-visioning Katrina: Exploring Gender in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans

I argue that to understand the gender dynamics of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, and the stormâ s aftermath, one must interrogate the cultural conflation of the black female body and the cityâ s legacy to explore what it means and how it situates real black women in social, cultural, and physical...

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Main Author: Skelley, Chelsea Atkins
Other Authors: English
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42432
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05022011-123707/