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"Chocolate City"

Personal Reflections from New Orleans, August 29, 2006

Dillard University

This article reflects on the political, institutional, and personal meanings of Katrina one year after the event and beyond. The author agues that the history of social injustice and economic inequality in New Orleans and the state of Louisiana exposed poor and working-class people to the brunt of Katrina's damage and undermined their capacity to rebuild their own lives in the hurricane's aftermath. The article also laments the failure of city officials to craft a comprehensive plan to rebuild the city and ensure that the levees would stand against future storms. Nonetheless, based upon efforts to rebuild Dillard University, the author believes that such institutional rebuilding activities will attract growing numbers of African Americans back to the Crescent City from the far-flung New Orleans Diaspora.

Key Words: New Orleans • Dillard University • "Chocolate City" • Creoles • African Americans

This version was published on July 1, 2009

Journal of Urban History, Vol. 35, No. 5, 668-674 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0096144209336528


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