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No Shelter from the Storm

No Shelter from the Storm ricane Katrina made landfall, while much of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, remained under water, thousands of poor, mainly African American New Orleanians continued to wait for buses at the Superdome, the Morial Convention Center, and the Route 10 overpass. On a special news broadcast, NBC anchor Brian Williams stated the obvious. New Orleanians, he began, “are dying inside the city of New Orleans today. They feel forgotten and the people inside the city of New South Atlantic Quarterly 106:4, Fall 2007 doi 10.1215/00382876-2007-041 © 2007 Duke University Press 684 Carol A. Stabile Orleans are asking repeatedly today to people in Washington: Are you watching? Are you listening?” Nancy Davis, a nurse interviewed by NBC the following day, put it more bluntly: “It’s totally crazy. We feel totally abandoned by the government.”1 For the white eyes turned on the city of New Orleans, forced to witness for the first time in decades the effects of racism and economic despair exacerbated by the undermining of public infrastructures in the United States, evidence of the government’s abandonment of New Orleans threatened to overwhelm their sense of self and place. These were, after all, privileged people invested in a particular http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press

No Shelter from the Storm

Stabile, Carol A.
South Atlantic Quarterly , Volume 106 (4) – Oct 1, 2007
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press
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0038-2876
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10.1215/00382876-2007-041
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Abstract

ricane Katrina made landfall, while much of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, remained under water, thousands of poor, mainly African American New Orleanians continued to wait for buses at the Superdome, the Morial Convention Center, and the Route 10 overpass. On a special news broadcast, NBC anchor Brian Williams stated the obvious. New Orleanians, he began, “are dying inside the city of New Orleans today. They feel forgotten and the people inside the city of New South Atlantic Quarterly 106:4, Fall 2007 doi 10.1215/00382876-2007-041 © 2007 Duke University Press 684 Carol A. Stabile Orleans are asking repeatedly today to people in Washington: Are you watching? Are you listening?” Nancy Davis, a nurse interviewed by NBC the following day, put it more bluntly: “It’s totally crazy. We feel totally abandoned by the government.”1 For the white eyes turned on the city of New Orleans, forced to witness for the first time in decades the effects of racism and economic despair exacerbated by the undermining of public infrastructures in the United States, evidence of the government’s abandonment of New Orleans threatened to overwhelm their sense of self and place. These were, after all, privileged people invested in a particular

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Published: Oct 1, 2007

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