Returning to post-Katrina New Orleans: Exploring the processes, barriers, and decision-making of African Americans

<p>This qualitative case study explores the post-Katrina experiences of African Americans in Houston and in New Orleans. When the levees failed, residents from New Orleans were scattered across the country. Houston housed the largest population of displaced low-income African Americans from New Orleans. As the rebuilding process began, housing, employment, education, and healthcare policies in New Orleans changed. These institutional changes employed urban revitalization and poverty removal strategies adapted to disaster recovery. This study differs from previous research by examining these changes with an intersectional approach. It explores how African Americans frame obstacles as they attempt to return to a city with reformed housing, employment, education, and healthcare policies. To do this, I analyze three different cases 1) those that returned to New Orleans, 2) those still displaced in Houston, and 3) those that relocated to Houston after returning to New Orleans for over a year.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Mosby, Kim

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pam Jenkins
• Vern Baxter
• Denise Strong

• disaster recovery
• people of color
• decision-making
• social institutions
• Hurricane Katrina
• displacement
• Inequality and Stratification
• Sociology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1506

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2552