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... 0.1 080/07393148.2022.2129201 Check for updates IIWe Come Here to Work:" US Au Pairs and Rights Claiming during a Care Crisis Grace Reinke. Department of Political Science, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA ABSTRACT This paper argues that, despite au pairs' provision of valuable service...

..., especially in New Orleans, as those worst impacted and also most neglected. The first part of this article elaborates on the contested concepts of “race” and “racism” in a contemporary context, in which popular visual and narrative representations inform contemporary racial discourses and the perpetuation...

...Peter G. Stillman; Adelaide H. Villmoare Abstract This article engages a double exploration of the political meanings of African American parading in New Orleans and the significance of those meanings for understandings of democracy, especially those theories that look beyond elective...

... Orleans, LA, USA ABSTRACT How much, if at all, does religiosity influences racist and xenophobic beliefs? Evangelical support for bigoted and xenophobic policies is not a new phenomenon. Yet, despite the abundant scholarship on religiosity and race, we know little about the mechanisms through which...

... is entitled, "Won't Bow, Don't Know How," and that message of resilience is clear from the opening scene. Treme, the latest creation from David Simon and Eric Overmyer, who brought us The Wire and Honzicide, begins three months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and it finds New Orleans hurting. Many...

... of thinking about justifications of violence from both individuals and the police as a whole, who often prime themselves as always under threat. My second section investigates these same themes in Ida B. Wells's public scholarship, and particularly her pamphlet Mob Rule in New Orleans, to provide a critical...

... "The Work of the People: Labor and Political Identity from the New Deal to the Ownership Society." Peter G. Stillman, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vassar College, is engaged with Adelaide H. Villmoare in a long-term project on politics in post-Katrina New Orleans. He has taught...

... of this article are the SouthWest Organizing Project in Albuquerque and the Gulf Coast Tenants Organization in New Orleans. These groups are widely-acknowledged as among the leading organizations in the movement for environmental justice (Environmental Careers Organization, 1992; Kerr and Lee, 1993; Gottlieb...

... of Hooker's work. According to Hooker, the postmodern social insurrection (riots) in Paris of 2005 and the political-humanitarian disaster in New Orleans (Hurricane Katrina, 2006) call into question the Western liberal commitment to racial equality, multiculturalism, and immigrant integration. These two...

... and interests of African Americans through New Orleans parading, of African American women and men through hip-hop, of the "blues people" through literature and music, and of American military veterans through the monuments we build to them. This sharing of experience occurs partly through the affective...

...: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina," American Quarterly 61:3 (2009), pp. 499-527. 13Justin Wedes quoted in Max Liboiron, "Interview with Justin Wedes, Occupy Sandy Volunteer, 1/10/13," Superstorm Research Lab (July 24, 2013), available online at: https...

... New Orleans. Jeffrey D. Hilmer, Ph.D., is interested in political theory-especially democratic theory. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Kurt Jacobsen is research associate in the Department of Political Science at the University...

... focuses on two organizations of people of color, the Gulf Coast Tenant's Organization in New Orleans and SouthWest Organizing Project in Albuquerque. Their appearance has helped shift the terms of public debate as well as the perception of ecology movements. Following Novotny, Jeff Land looks at Pacifica...

... New Orleans schools through charters was "seen by many African-American parents as a way of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement:'88 While the natural disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina brought charters to New Orleans, these charters have, in turn, been disastrous for the iconic, pro...

... condition, and either the second or third conditions. The songs were randomly chosen and examined based on the above requirements. The first political rap song used in the experiment was "GeorgiaBush" by New Orleans rap artist Lil Wayne. This song was written after Hurricane Katrina laid waste...

... on the need for organization and mass mobilization to improve the plight of African peoples domestically and throughout the diaspora. Although the Washington ALD demonstration was the largest, concurrent demonstrations were held in New Orleans, San Francisco, Toronto and the Caribbean. Like the Washington...

...." -Edgar Speer, Executive Director of U.S. Steel, in a speech before the McKeesport, Pa. Chamber of Commerce. On September 7, 1977 the Lykes Corporation, a New Orleans basedconglomerate, announced that it would close its Campbell steel works, a portion of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube (YS&T) Company near...

..., Ollio police in a deadly ambush. A number of officers were killed and wounded, SOlne guerrillas were also killed or wounded and Ahmad Evans was imprisoned (wllere he died). Mark Essex (free sllooter) held off an army of police officers atop a 11igh hotel in New Orleans. Officials had to call...

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... that has received very little attention. Rampart is just one police scandal among dozens. Since Rampart there have been similar scandals in New York City, Miami, New Orleans, Cincinnati and again in Los Angeles in the 77th Street, Central and Southeast Divisions of the LAPD. This does not even count...