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Second line home : New Orleans poems
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ISBN: 1612481019 9781612481012 9781612481005 1612481000 Year: 2014 Publisher: Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press,

Red beans and ricely yours
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ISBN: 1612480438 9781612480435 1931112533 9781931112536 1931112541 9781931112543 Year: 2005 Publisher: Kirksville, Mo. Truman State University Press

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These narrative poems tell the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and the rare magic in the culture. Vibrant with local history and color, these poems have a Black sensibility that reaches beyond boundaries, with folk sayings turned into polished verse.


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Down and out in New Orleans
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ISBN: 0231545193 9780231545198 9780231178525 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York

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In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this unfamiliar side of the gentrifying "new" New Orleans. In 1920s Paris, Orwell witnessed an influx of locals and outsiders seeking authenticity while struggling to live with bourgeois society. Marina finds a similar ambivalence in New Orleans: a tourism-dependent city whose commerce caters largely to well-heeled natives and upper-class travelers, where many creative locals and wanderers have remained outsiders, willingly or otherwise. Marina does not merely interview these spirited urban misfits-he lives among them. Down and Out in New Orleans follows their journeys, depicting the lives of those on the social fringes of a resilient city. Marina finds work as a bartender, street mime, and poet. Along the way, he visits homeless shelters, squats in abandoned buildings, attends rituals in cemeteries, and befriends writers, musicians, occultists, and artists as they look for creative solutions to the contradictory demands of late capitalism. Marina does for New Orleans what Orwell did for Paris a century earlier, providing a rigorous, unrelenting, and original glimpse into the subcultures of a city in rapid change.


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Creole City : a chronicle of early American New Orleans
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ISBN: 9780813055237 0813055237 9780813060200 0813060206 0813050618 9780813050614 Year: 2015 Publisher: Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida,

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Although sometimes read like a piece of economic, social, intellectual, and cultural history, Moyer's book is not meant to be a comprehensive history of early American New Orleans, but an individual perception of New Orleans, a very personal description of what Jean Boze,a foreigner in the Crescent City, saw and wrote about during the 1820s and 1830s. The reader will follow him in his wanderings through the city's history, and learn about early New Orleans within the context of the early nineteenth century Atlantic space.


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The daily crescent.
ISSN: 23777257 Year: 1848 Publisher: [New Orleans, Louisiana] : Hayes & M'Clure,


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The New Orleans daily Democrat.
ISSN: 23721189 Year: 1877 Publisher: New Orleans {La.] : George W. Dupre & Co.


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New Orleans daily crescent.
ISSN: 23345802 Year: 1851 Publisher: [New Orleans, La.] : J. H. Maddox


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New Orleans Republican.
ISSN: 23778245 Year: 1878 Publisher: New Orleans [Louisiana] : S. L. Brown & Co.,


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A streetcar named desire : a collection of critical essays
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ISBN: 0138514933 Year: 1971 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) Prentice Hall


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Civic engagement in the wake of Katrina
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ISBN: 0472900420 9780472900428 Year: 2009 Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press,

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"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 "This profound and eloquent collection describes and assesses the new coalitions bringing a city back to life. It's a powerful call to expand our notions of culture, social justice, and engaged scholarship. I'd put this on my 'must read' list." ---Nancy Cantor, Syracuse University "Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina is a rich and compelling text for thinking about universities and the arts amid social crisis. Americans need to hear the voices of colleagues who were caught in Katrina's wake and who responded with commitment, creativity, and skill." ---Peter Levine, CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement) This collection of essays documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. While firmly rooted in concrete projects, Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina also addresses the larger issues raised by committed public scholarship. How can higher education institutions engage with their surrounding communities? What are the pros and cons of "asset-based" and "outreach" models of civic engagement? Is it appropriate for the private sector to play a direct role in promoting civic engagement? How does public scholarship impact traditional standards of academic evaluation? Throughout the volume, this diverse collection of essays paints a remarkably consistent and persuasive account of arts-based initiatives' ability to foster social and civic renewal. Amy Koritz is Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Professor of English at Drew University. George J. Sanchez is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. Front and rear cover designs, photographs, and satellite imagery processing by Richard Campanella. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.

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