Along The Road Home

In August 2005, floodwaters driven by Hurricane Katrina breached the London Avenue Canal and caused widespread damage to the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. In the aftermath, the U.S. Government created and funded Road Home, a program intended to support rebuilding. The program has since been criticized for disparities in distributing aid funds, with low-income residents, primarily African Americans, receiving less overall. Through a multimedia project including photographs, video, and audio as well as a project-driven website and a community art component, this thesis investigates the ongoing struggles of four specific residents to return to their homes and to restore their community on one block of Agriculture Street, just steps from the canal.

Author

• Scott, Emma

Language

• en

Keyword

• Road Home
• Katrina
• Recovery
• Displacement
• Rebuilding
• New Orleans

Date created

• 2013

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• New Media Photojournalism

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Bulisova, Gabriela
• Sterner, Susan

Committee Member(s)

• Elfers, Steve
• Bulisova, Gabriela
• Turner, Tyrone
• Sterner, Susan
• Beasley, Toren

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/df65v803d