Cover Image
QR Code

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...

Full description

Published in:Southern Cultures Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 50 - 66
Main Author: McDowell, Robin
Format: Article
Published: University of North Carolina Press Fall2025
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Chinese Americans
American identity
Police brutality
Eyewitness accounts
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost

Internet

View this record in EBSCOhost