If you tour the Lower Ninth Ward, you might find this article by a colleague to be of interest:
Hartford Courant September 18, 2005
"My Streets, My People Of Marvel And Magic Will Rise" by Professor Noel Cazenave.
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Like America, and despite the inextricable link between racism and poverty, New Orleans is so much more than its social problems. This is what the television coverage often did not show.
As many Americans watched, they saw a lot of dark faces that revealed the ravages of poverty and desperation. A disproportionate number were from the Lower Ninth Ward, my home for much of my childhood. Aside from their obvious suffering, what hurt me most was the sense that they were being seen as one large stereotype of ``black'' poverty, not as the wonderful people I knew many of them to be.
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It was in the Lower Ninth Ward that I learned that poor people are indeed people, not stereotypes. Stereotyping people doesn't work in the Lower Ninth Ward. When I was growing up there, your survival could depend on being able to distinguish quickly between individuals who were governed by their basic human goodness and those who had been defeated by poverty, ignorance and violence. But what impressed me most was the depth of love and caring I saw when I looked in the eyes of the overwhelming majority of my fellow Lower Ninth Ward residents.
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I understand that potent spiritual force that is New Orleans. This is a place that, through a rare combination of pain and love, forged my very essence -- my soul. My New Orleans neighborhoods taught me about courage, compassion and creativity -- precisely the values this nation needs to rebuild its most unique city and to return to the business of the completion of the American dream.
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The portion of the Ninth Ward along the river down-river from the Industrial Canal stretching to the St. Bernard line is called the "Lower 9th Ward" or "Lower Ninth". It includes the Holy Cross neighborhood, the twin Doullut Steamboat Houses and the Jackson Barracks. Until Hurricane Katrina, the Lower Ninth Ward had the highest percentage of black home ownership in the city.
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The Lower Ninth Ward flooded most catastrophically, with storm surge coming through two large breaches in the Industrial Canal flood protection system, creating violent currents that not only flooded buildings, but smashed them and displaced them from their foundations. Floodwaters propelled the barge ING 4727 into the neighborhood on the other side of the levee from the Industrial Canal.
During several days of the hurricane aftermath, live television news coverage from reporters and anchors who had little familiarity with New Orleans frequently included misinformation, such as referring to the Lower 9th Ward simply as "the 9th Ward" and misidentifying helicopter shots of the Industrial Canal breach as the 17th Street Canal breach (which was actually at the nearly opposite end of the city.)
The Lower 9th Ward, not yet dry from Katrina, was re-flooded by Hurricane Rita a month later.
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