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WEBQUEST: KATRINA: Race & Place in New Orleans INTRODUCTION TASK PROCESS RESOURCES CONCLUSION
http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/il.html
New Orleans has a long multicultural history and is famous for its rich music, food, and cultural life as a unique coastal city of the Americas. In Fall 2005, Hurricane KATRINA devastated New Orleans and brought world attention to the city's delicate environment, social neglect, poverty, and racial divisions.
Understanding the city's diverse history and the impact of Katrina is a complex task, and rebuilding the city for the benefit of its historical populations offers a challenge to all Americans.
The first step for equitable and sustainable urban planning is to visualize how the city was built, and how New Orleans' celebrated culture and underlying social inequalities developed across time and urban space.
The second step is to understand KATRINA's impact and the current and ongoing response for rebuilding an integrated city for people of different races & ethnicity. What would it take to build a sustainable and equitable metropolis on the ruins of old New Orleans?
This WebQuest will take one or two teams of students through these first two steps.
"Candles" - http://www.artsms.com/ex_carriemaeweems.htm
The first student research and response teams will explore New Orleans' multicultural history and the spatial-racial-class landscape of the city in the centuries and decades leading up to KATRINA. Working as apprentice naturalists, historians, and anthropologists, the first student teams will examine the natural environment of a historic port city at the mouth of the Mississippi River and the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. Team members will learn about the lives and contributions of indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans who built much of the city, the powerful influence of Spanish and French monarchs, as well as artists, musicians, Mardi Gras krewes, and all the other people who created the unique City of New Orleans. The resulting PowerPoint presentation will paint a portrait of a culturally complex, colorful, unique, and diverse past.
A second group of research and response teams will analyze the mix of environmental conditions, faulty planning, questionable government response, and existing social inequalities contributed to an urban New Orleans that sat on the brink of catastrophe. Working as apprentice planners, environmentalists, and sociologists, these teams will investigate the immediate aftermath and response by governmental organizations, business interests, community organizations, urban planners, grassroots groups, musicians, artists and the everyday residents of New Orleans. The resulting PowerPoint presentation will bring us up to the present, and address the question: What does the future hold for New Orleans and its people?
The student teams will present their findings and take the first two steps to rebuilding the city through critical thinking processes, and using the technology of the internet and PowerPoint software to help the audience up these first two steps to recovery.
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The team members will take on specific roles in order to carry out investigation from historical and contemporary perspectives. The key roles are tied to a quest that seeks specific internet RESOURCES provided in this WebQuest and any related information found through search engines (Google / Dogpile / etc). Key roles that team members can choose are:
Media Specialist/s: Organize the team effort, and build a PowerPoint presentation with the data collected by the student researchers working in diverse academic fields. Review the completed PowerPoint with as many team members as possible before presenting to the review board (Community Studies class).
Historians & Anthropologists: Gather information on city history, Mardi Gras, Ethnic cultures & language to create informational & illustrative slides about the multicultural history of New Orleans as a unique U.S. city.
Sociologists: Gather socioeconomic data regarding class and racial makeup of the city in the decade before Katrina struck: If hurricane's are "natural" disasters, then why were people affected unequally depending on their race & class ?
Naturalists & Environmentalists: What was known about environmental and climate conditions of the Delta and Gulf Coast region before Katrina? To what extent was Katrina a "natural" disaster beyond human control? What were some of the ecological warning signals before 2005? Could steps have been taken to protect the city & population? [ Provide examples !! ]
Planners & Allies: What would re-development built on principles of environmental sustainability and social justice just look like in New Orleans? Have team members gather information to explain: 1) urban planning in New Orleans "past & present"; 2) perspectives of local grassroots, resident, & environmental organizations: What do they think should be done? 3) current "official" cleanup and re-building efforts look like today: Who's in charge & what's being done? Who will benefit? 4) planning for the future: How will the built environment change, and can the natural environment be protected?
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CONCLUSION & EVALUATION: TEAM ANALYSIS What will New Orleans look like five or ten years from now? Team members may wish to present some alternative scenarios: How much of the multicultural past and rich heritage can be reclaimed for the future? What are the alternative futures depending on which of the current "visions" - "power brokers" - or "interests" prevail ?? What might the ethnic-racial composition of the city look like in coming years? economic class composition? In a best-case scenario, how can those who seek environmental sustainability work together with those who seek racial justide and social equality for New Orleans ?
Team members and media specialist/organizer should check the "Evaluation Matrix" ( See WQ info on http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mavillanueva/webquest.htm ) and review the PowerPoint slide presentation to assure high quality, with attention to attractive graphics, well-organized data, historical chronology (timeline?), and clear presentation of evidence, facts, and careful team analysis for your concluding remarks and predictions.
http://www.katrinahelp.com/hurricane-katrina-pictures.html
Images: Google images - CITE HOME WEBSITE URL FOR THE IMAGE-on each slide
New Orleans History & Music - Documentary PBS Websites
PBS American Experience New
Orleans (NEW WEBSITE - 2007)
PBS jazz NewOrleans
River of Song - New Orleans jazz episode
History, Cultural Heritage & Tourism in New Orleans
Race & Ethnicity in New Orleans: Past & Present
Race, Class, Poverty Data for New Orleans
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22/2255000.html 2000 population data - census
concentrated poverty - Census 2000
concentration of poverty N.O. 2006 report
Segregation & other population data at Censuscope [ http://www.censusscope.org/ ] Level of segregation N.O. chart: http://www.censusscope.org/us/m5560/chart_exposure.html
Access to cars in New Orleans http://www.brookings.edu/metro/20050915_katrinacarstables.pdf
Accounting for Katrina's Dead: http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/2006/story10-23-06.php
Environment & Geography of New Orleans
http://www.watchingamerica.com/liberation000040.html
History: 1927 new orleans flood
Future Flooding Risks: Washington Post updates http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/nation/special/10/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17132172/ Wetlands & Corps of Engineers - 2007 debates
http://www.stphilipneri.org/teacher/pontchartrain/ Water: Lake Pontchartrain
Aftermath – interactive maps of Katrina landfall - 10/22/05 – Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/22/AR2005102201191.html
The next Katrina ? http://discovermagazine.com/2006/aug/thenextkatrina
http://www.mrbill.com/store/NOdvd.htm “Natural History” streaming video
“Scorecard” Pollution Report by race/class in New Orleans area http://www.scorecard.org/community/ej-summary.tcl?fips_county_code=22071&lang=eng
New Orleans' trees after Katrina: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9773202/
Levees in danger across U.S. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-28-levees_x.htm
"Geography of Vulnerability" - race, environment, & Katrina http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Cutter/
Katrina & environmental hazards http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9729642/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9370519/site/newsweek/ http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/dec/science/jp_katrina2.html http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/katrinadata/contents.asp http://www.epa.gov/enviro/katrina/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/08/AR2005100801458_pf.html drowning of N.O.
Toxic New Orleans today? http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2487
Environmental Justice: Lessons of Katrina http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0607/Feb19_07/19.shtml
RACE, ETHNICITY, CULTURE & CLASS: Impacts of Katrina on a Diverse City ?
Graphs on 2009 population in New Orleans: http://www.gnocdc.org/2008Demographics/GNOCDC_2008ACSDemographics.pdf
2009 Population in New Orleans: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/no_tops_300000_in_census_estim.html
Outlying parish passes laws to block African American and Jewish residents & housing http://colorlines.com/article.php?ID=617&p=1 (2009)
Public Housing to be destroyed while homelessness grows: JAN 2008 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3504/first_came_katrina_then_came_hud/
New Orleans' Black/White Population in September 2007
What happened to majority black population of New Orleans? 2006 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/fadeout-new-orleans-disap_b_21203.html
What did race have to do with it? "unnatural disaster" http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1116-34.htm
Katrina: Were Race or Class most significant? http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2005/10/katrina-and-environmental-injustice.php http://www.planetizen.com/node/19847
Cultural events affected NYT - 2006
What does race & class have to do with reconstruction? (Mike Davis, Le Monde) http://mondediplo.com/2005/10/02katrina
Will African American people return to the city? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012706P.shtml
http://www.justiceforneworleans.org/ Destruction of African American city ?
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372715,00.html Katrina & Race
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/deltaarts.html Multicultural music-arts & Katrina
Culture & race in N.O.: a view from Minnesota http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Howell0911.htm
Where have the Latinos gone (Hondurans, Mexicans) ? http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/hispanic/community_family/pns_katrina_hondurans_0905.asp
Latinos & Rebuilding New Orleans: an economist's perspective http://www.slate.com/id/2140224/entry/2140240/
Latinization of New Orleans in 2005 ? http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=fa92e2c88a63985418da75582292b5c7
Mexican Workers in Cleanup Abused Nov 2005 (click)
http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/NewOrleans_Part1.pdf single mothers
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/ Independent media on Katrina impact
http://www.alternet.org/katrina/27349/ Survivor stories
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/07/1415225 survivor reports
What happened to Honduran residents of N.O. ? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/honduras-emergency/message/1043 http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2410
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/clc060905.html racism charged
http://www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=711 Catholics re racism
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/deltaarts.html Effects on musicians & artists ?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/nola.levees/ CNN on Ninth Ward
From Katrina to Rita in Ninth Ward … MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9803363/
http://www.southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2007/01/fema-poised-to-intensify-katrina.asp
Will New Orleans be rebuilt? Development & planning issues
2010 Superbowl - Will the attention help? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29orleans.html?hpw
2009 "Recovery is not enough" NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/us/31orleans.html?_r=1&hpw
Obama on rebuilding New Orleans (2009) http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/08/post_1.html
Latino immigrants looking for construction work abused - 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/us/16hispanic.html
2008 - Plans and controversies on rebuilding http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_new_orleans_rebuilds.html
Architects analyze plans to rebuild New Orleans & lack of plans before Katrina http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/ek_public/documents/pdf/aiap037572.pdf
The Day the Music Died? Musicians organize for recovery of New Orleans: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14078460 http://www.nolamusiciansvillage.com/
Urban Conservancy - projects & people http://www.urbanconservancy.org/
2007: Planning for N.O. approved in Louisiana http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/lra_approves_no_recovery_plan.html
Policy Issues: Planning for equitable renewal & rebuilding http://www.policylink.org/EquitableRenewal.html
Planner’s Network on Rebuilding New Orleans http://www.plannersnetwork.org/publications/mag_2007_2_spring.html http://www.plannersnetwork.org/publications/statement_katrina.html
Planner's Network (18 months later) http://www.plannersnetwork.org/publications/2007_spring/quigley.html
http://www.buildinggreen.com/auth/article.cfm?fileName=141002a.xml Building Green?
Restoring Caribbean architecture to New Orleans, post-Katrina (2006) http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2510
Katrina Cottages, design - http://katrinacottagehousing.org/
Data for recovery & redevelopment
Redevelopment zones (2007 New York Times report) http://www.urbanconservancy.org/news/roundup/archive/715
Red Tape problems (2007 Wash Post) http://www.urbanconservancy.org/news/roundup/archive/716
Spatial & Social Impacts: Brown University Report http://www.brown.edu/Administration/InsideBrown/2006/021006d.html http://www.s4.brown.edu/katrina/index.html
Planning? African Americans & Environmental Justice http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=210&Itemid=33
Will New Orleans become a "theme park" ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_government_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/15/AR2005091502417_pf.html Pres Bush speech
APA – American Planning Association - post-Katrina plans http://www.planning.org/katrina/neworleansteam.htm
Bring New Orleans Back - working & report documents http://www.bringneworleansback.org/
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/111406LC.shtml Discriminatory housing ordinances since Katrina
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1015-27.htm R.Nader – cooperative idea
http://www.mojones.com/commentary/columns/2005/10/gentrifying_disaster.html
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20051017&s=davis questioning response
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/19/forgotten/index_np.html forgotten ones
http://mondediplo.com/2005/10/02katrina rebuilding at expense of black population?
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/hurr-symp-3.html urban planning / rebuilding
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/july-dec05/rebuild_9-30.html rebuilding
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1012/p01s01-ussc.html rebuilding
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/10/02/a_battle_to_rebuild_looms_in_new_orleans/ rebuilding battles
Mississippi Coast: Time Stands Still 11/30/05 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/24/AR2005112400796.html
Will rebuilding be elite & “whiter” ?? http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=2450 http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2514
UPDATES: Recovery & Survival after Katrina:
Special Coverage - CNN Updates http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/
Brookings Institute - Recovery updates http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/200512_katrinaindex.htm
VIDEO: Latinos rebuilding New Orleans http://www.arc.org/peter/nola5min2007/
MSNBC Special - Katrina 2006 & Fed Government Promises http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14515119/site/newsweek/
Common Dreams: Online articles re New Orleans & Katrina
Future of public education (2006 report) http://www.urban.org/publications/900913.html
Public Libraries: Damages & Recovery http://nutrias.org/~nopl/info/branches/branches.htm
Black businesses & recovery (July 26, 2007 report) http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-26-2007/0004633621&EDATE=
Barak Obama at NAACP (2007) - on fed govt & recovery http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/obamanaacp713
Construction Workers - 2007 report http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/07/katrina_reconstruction_workers.html
Recovery Efforts - 2006 - Brookings Institute http://www.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20060822_katrina.htm
Recovery Efforts - 2006 - Rockefeller Foundation http://www.rockfound.org/initiatives/new_orleans/no_home.shtml
PBS Streaming Video: Will insurance companies pay? 2005 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/july-dec05/insurance_9-27.html#
ABC - Homeowners' Insurance ? http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/hurricane_katrina/index.html
Thanksgiving 2006
Media Focus ? November 2006 http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10370324/detail.html
Thanksgiving 2005- in New Orleans http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112405G.shtml
FEMA Evicting Survivors: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1123-21.htm
Organizations & Allies: Saving New Orleans’ people & heritage
Habitat for Humanity
http://www.catholiccharities-no.org/ Catholic Charities
Planner’s Network on Rebuilding New Orleans along more Equitable and Just lines… http://www.plannersnetwork.org/publications/statement_katrina.html
What's being done? 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/45953/
Volunteer Networking for New Orleans http://www.volunteermatch.org/bymsa/m5560/c/opp1.html http://acorn.org/index.php?id=10188
Reconstruction Watch - a critical voice http://www.reconstructionwatch.org/
Help still coming from young people - Nov 2006 http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/112606dntexorleans.2931704c.html
http://www.neworleansnetwork.org/ networking
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2519 local efforts
http://www.wwoz.org/music.php search for missing musicians
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4955482 Zulu crewe & Mardi gras recovery
http://www.acadianaartscouncil.org/site115.php Artists’ joining for recovery
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0914-28.htm helping each other http://www.urbanconservancy.org/ Urban Conservancy Organization
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=9703 ACORN org
Grassroot Organizing in post-katrina areas of the Gulf Coast
National Urban League Katrina victims’ Bill of rights…
http://www.cwa3410.org/ reports from labor union
http://southernecho.org/ Southern Echo group
http://cluonline.live.radicaldesigns.org/?page_id=2 OVERSIGHT COALITION links http://cluonline.live.radicaldesigns.org/?page_id=37 grassroots response http://cluonline.live.radicaldesigns.org/?page_id=41 those in prisons ?
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