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Community Uprising: Katrina, Resilience, Resistance & Culture after 10 Years
PLEASE NOTE: To attend the full conference please register separately for each time period listed. This will ensure your place at daytime conference events on August 20th and 21st as well as Rebel Music, the evening of August 20th.
The daytime events are free, though please consider contributing to help cover costs. Rebel Music is $25/person.
Purpose:
The Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies is organizing a two-day conference to centralize the ongoing struggles and resiliency of communities of color in post-Katrina New Orleans. This conference coincides with the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and brings together international, national and local thought leaders to discuss recovery, community resilience and place. This concept of resilience will be problematized within the context of disaster in communities that struggle with chronic and toxic stress. A key component will be exploring the role of culture as a source of resistance and protective factor against chronic stress; and the potential resultant transformation towards the process of resilience.
Background:
Hurricane Katrina caused traumatic disorientation of communities of color, the impact of which continues today a full ten years later. Building on the existing everyday stressors /adversity of racism and classism, this disorientation contributes to high rates of violent crime, unemployment, chronic food deserts, stark health inequalities, and increased stress levels. Additionally, the mass evacuation and inequitable recovery and re-housing opportunities undermined historical protective factors within African American communities such as strong family ties, cultural identity and close relationships. While government and business officials point to "cranes in the sky" as evidence of the resiliency of New Orleans, the lived experience of New Orleanians of color continues to be one of lost community, unemployment, incarceration, and exhaustion. Despite inequitable redevelopment one that prioritizes economic recovery over social stability individuals, families and communities have survived, primarily utilizing familial and social networks, and the culture of music and dance to begin to the journey of reorientation to new landscapes. This conference will highlight strength in the face of chronic stress and adversity and develop holistic strategies at multiple levels of the social ecological model (intra-psychic, interpersonal, community and societal) to support the continued reorientation of New Orleanians. The conference will also highlight similar stories of survival from Jamaica and Haiti which have faced similar acute and chronic stressors.
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LocationEllis Marsalis Center for Music (View)
1901 Bartholomew Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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