Popular Resistance, August 31, 2025, Tracing The Rise And Fall Of New Orleans Working Class
Faced with an opportunity to reinvent itself after Hurricane Katrina, the city instead doubled down, using the displacement of African Americans from the impoverished 9th ward especially as an accelerant to speed up the pace of gentrification in the city. In a 2020 study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, New Orleans ranked 5th among the United States’ 20 most gentrified cities, privatizing, as one example, its entire public school system to become home to the nation’s first all-charter school system.
