Rebuilding New Orleans : migrant laborers and street food vendors in the post-Katrina era / Sarah Fouts.

Author/creator Fouts, Sarah author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Description208 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Subjects
Central Americans--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --Social conditions. --21st century.
Mexicans--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --Social conditions. --21st century.
Day laborers--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --Social conditions. --21st century.
Street-food vendors (Persons)--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --Social conditions. --21st century.
Immigrants--Louisiana. --New Orleans. --Social conditions. --21st century.
Centraméricains--Louisiane. --La Nouvelle-Orléans. --Conditions sociales. --21e siècle.
Mexicains--Louisiane. --La Nouvelle-Orléans. --Conditions sociales. --21e siècle.
Journaliers--Louisiane. --La Nouvelle-Orléans. --Conditions sociales. --21e siècle.
New Orleans (La.)--Race relations. --21st century.
New Orleans (La.)--Politics and government. --21st century.

Contents Right to labor: feeding the recovery -- Right to land: tracing displacement and resistance from New Orleans to Honduras -- Right to culture: criminalization of cultural production -- Right to space: vying for space beyond the city limits.
Abstract "In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Central American and Mexican immigrants arrived in New Orleans to help clean up and rebuild. When federal relief services overlooked the needs of immigrant-led construction and cleanup crews as part of post-Katrina mass feeding strategies, street food stands and taco trucks stepped in to ensure food security for these workers. Many of these food vendors settled in the city over the next decade, opening restaurants and other businesses. Yet, in a city experiencing whitewashed redevelopment, new immigrants were frequently pitted against Black poor and working-class New Orleanians for access to housing and other resources. During Fouts's five years as a volunteer with the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice, she came to know and interview the day laborers, food workers, culture producers, and community organizers whose stories shape this book. Her work reveals how, after the storm, immigrant communities have culturally and politically reshaped New Orleans and its suburbs. Fouts also highlights how immigrants forged multiracial solidarities to foster inclusive change at the local level. By connecting migration, labor, and food, Rebuilding New Orleans centers human experiences to illustrate how immigrant and established communities of color resisted criminalization and racial capitalism to create a more just New Orleans"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781469687445
LCCN 2024045141
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ISBN1469685019
ISBN9781469685021 (paperback)
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Standard identifier# CIPO000228990

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Joyner General Stacks F379 .N59 C344 2025 ✔ Available Place Hold