DESTROY THIS MEMORY:
UNDERSTANDING Katrina & its Aftermath through hip hop
Medium Title
Readings
"Race & the Storm" by Jelani Cobb
"The Press, Race and Katrina" by Madison Gray
"Post-Katrina, Graffiti Said it All" by Claire O'Neill
"Ten Years Later" by Laura Bliss
"New Orleans Hip-Hop Remembers the Hurricane" by Sara Bonisteel
"The Myth of the New Orleans School Makeover" by Andrea Gabor
"High Water" by David Remnick
"Shelter and the Storm" by Katherine Boo
"White People in New Orleans Say They're Better Off After Katrina" by Abby Phillip
"Katrina Evacuees Shift Houston's Identity" by Thom Patterson
"Starting Over" by Malcolm Gladwell
"Eight years after Hurricane Katrina, many evacuees yet to return" by Renee Lewis
Handouts
Novel Choices
From Goodreads:
"Armani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday. All her friends are coming to her party, her mama is making a big cake, and she has a good feeling about a certain wrapped box. Turning ten is a big deal to Armani. It means she's older, wiser, more responsible. But when Hurricane Katrina hits the Lower Nines of New Orleans, Armani realizes that being ten means being brave, watching loved ones die, and mustering all her strength to help her family weather the storm."
From Goodreads:
"A hurricane, a tragic death, two boys, one marble. How they intertwine is at the heart of this beautiful, poignant book. When ten-year-old Zavion loses his home in Hurricane Katrina, he and his father are forced to flee to Baton Rouge. And when Henry, a ten-year-old boy in northern Vermont, tragically loses his best friend, Wayne, he flees to ravaged New Orleans to help with hurricane relief efforts—and to search for a marble that was in the pocket of a pair of jeans donated to the Red Cross."
Drowned City
"Don Brown’s kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history." - Goodreads.com