Afterword

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Notes

¹ For more, see “State of Black New Orleans: 10 Years Post-Katrina, Urban League of Greater New Orleans” (https://urbanleaguela.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/StateofBlackNewOrleans_TenYearsPostKatrina.pdf).

² For more, see Kevin Fox Gotham, “Racialization and Rescaling: Post-Katrina Rebuilding and the Louisiana Road Home Program.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 38, no. 3, May 2014.

³ See the “Bulbancha Is Still a Place” zine project (http://bulbanchaisstillaplace.org/) and Daniel H. Usner’s American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette. Louisiana State U P, 2018.

⁴ For more, see The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex published by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Duke U P, 2017.

⁵ The University of New Orleans Press is a recent notable exception with a diverse staff and with significant attention to local writers of color.

⁶ For more, see interviews by Concepción de León, Alexandra Alter, Elizabeth A. Harris, and Joumana Khatib in “‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing” (New York Times, July 1, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/books/book-publishing-black.html)