Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jul 2010 Open Access

“We need your minds, not your money. Come to my home”: An Invitation to Community Literacy from Kamp Katrina

Carla Maroudas ; Denise Crlenjak ; Dawn M. Formo

Abstract

This article presents The Kamp Katrina Project, a community literacy partnership with Kamp Katrina residents in New Orleans. Kamp Katrina is a colony for displaced artists, musicians, and low-wage earners. In this article, Kamp Katrina residents relate their stories about life in post-Katrina New Orleans after the levee failures devastated the city (now exacerbated by the recent BP oil disaster). As part of this article, we enclose the documentary short Kamp Katrina: A Love Letter to New Orleans, one of several community texts including a book of photography and a website (http://public.csusm.edu/kampkatrina/) where visitors can access video biographies and performances and learn how to support Kamp Katrina.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2010-07-01
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10.59236/rjv9i3pp129-161
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