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Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
On a recent trip to New Orleans, LA, I visited three notable sites in the city's history: the infamous slave exchange, now the site of the Omni Hotel and its attached restaurant; Congo Square, now the site of Louis Armstrong Park; and the Lower Ninth Ward, still devastated four years after the near miss of Hurricane Katrina [1]. The former two are marked by diminutive plaques noting the historical relevance of the location even as fabulous new buildings and modernist ornamentation overwhelm the site and its sense of significance. In the case of the later, however, there are no plaques or memorials commemorating the terror and momentousness of the event; rather, visitors rely on tour guides, who bus them around the devastation.
Repository Citation
Wester, Maisha. "Forgetting to Re-member: 'Post-racial' Amnesia and Racial History." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1–17. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss3/7