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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of the cultural development of New Orleans. The impact of Katrina on the city's "sense of place" is examined. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Race, Ethnicity, and Sense of Place in Post-Katrina New
Orleans , 9/2010 --properly! Since the rise of the nationalist mentality throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, cultural identity has gradually
become more intimately associated with "place" and "region" than with any kind of historical identification with the place of ones ancestors origins. This has naturally led to a number of
interesting cultural developments, particularly as regards the establishment of new multicultural identities in places or regions where large groups of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds tend to assemble.
Case in point: New Orleans. With the city of New Orleans known historically as a melting pot of French, African, and Native American cultures and sub-cultures, what kind of collective
cultural identity has been developed by New Orleanians and to what extent has this developed into a "sense of place"? Moreover, with Hurricane Katrina dislocating millions of native New Orleanians
in 2005, what effect has been wrought on that sense of place? Does the culturally established sense of place remain alive, and if so, is it something that will contribute
to the rebuilding of New Orleans? In this paragraph, the student is shown how to effectively define the phrase "sense of place" and establish a context for the rest of
the essay. First of all, lets establish what is meant by a "sense of place". This is an effective shorthand for the cultural impression that a particular group of individuals
"belong" to a particular geographic region, such as a city, due to the expression of similar traits and characteristics. These characteristics could be anything from vocal accents to the types
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