Uprooted : Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods /

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"This book is an archaeological investigation of four New Orleans neighborhoods that were replaced by public housing projects around World War II. Each of these neighborhoods was identified as a "slum" historically, but the material record challenges the simplicity of this designation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, D. Ryan (Danny Ryan), 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban archaeology.
Social conditions.
Race relations.
Public housing.
Neighborhoods.
Material culture.
Archeologie urbaine > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Culture materielle > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans.
Logement social > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orleans > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Urban archaeology > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Material culture > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Neighborhoods > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
Public housing > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Renewing New Orleans, past and present
  • Subjectivity, race, and the birth of public housing in New Orleans
  • St. Thomas : effacing heterogeneity in the Irish Channel
  • Magnolia : creating order in Belmont
  • Lafitte : gender, race, and Creole color along Orleans Avenue
  • Iberville : desexualizing space at Storyville.

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