Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

97. Ethnicity and New Orleans: Race and Space

8:30–9:45 a.m., 409, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: Martha J. Cutter, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs

1. “Our Leviathan, Our Selves: Post-Katrina New Orleans as Tropical City on a Hill?” Mike Hill, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York

2. “Cajuns Know What It Means to Miss More Than New Orleans,” Maria P. Hebert-Leiter, Wilkes Univ.

3. “The City That Care Forgot: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina,” Lauren Boyd, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

Respondent: Martha J. Cutter

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