Water in Sacred Places
Rebuilding New Orleans Black Churches as Sites of Community Empowerment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10026992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald E DeVore (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 762-769 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25095137 |
| OpenAlex | W2313149860 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In the city that had transformed “watching hurricanes” into a cultural art form, by Friday night, August 26, 2005, most New Orleanians had placed the eleventh named storm of the hurricane season on their personal watch list. Over the next forty-eight hours, approximately 350,000 residents evacuated the city. Most of them believed they would return within two or three days, just as they had done after recent storms threatened the city but then veered either to the east or west. The evacuees and the residents who remained in the city watched with some relief as Hurricane Katrina made landfall east of New Orleans, sparing the city the full force of its 140 mph winds. The first news reports were encouraging, but the optimistic assessments that the city had suffered only moderate damage were short-lived. The nation and the world watched with concern, disbelief, and horror as the tragedy in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast unfolded. For many residents, that marked the beginning of a long and still-evolving process to return to the city and rebuild their lives.1
Eleventh · Empowerment · Geography · Hurricane katrina · Landfall · Meteorology · Natural disaster · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Storm · Tragedy (event · History · Law · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |