Know Your CCCs: The Crescent City Connection and the Chinese Cajun Cowboy.
This essay examines how the Crescent City Connection (CCC)—a bridge linking New Orleans to Jefferson Parish—came to symbolize and enforce racialized segregation through state violence in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It focuses on two flashpoints nearly fifteen years apart: Black hurricane survivor...
| Publicado en: | Southern Cultures Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 50 - 66 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Fall2025
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