Title
Growing Up In Downtown New Orleans
Files
Interviewee
Harold Evans
Description
Adama Evans interviews her father Harold Evans to elicit similarities and differences in their experiences growing up in New Orleans. Harold was raised in the 7th Ward during the 1950s where he graduated from Joseph S. Clark High School. After serving in the Air Force in Vietnam, he worked as a mental health counselor in the Desire Florida Counseling Center. Harold tells Adama about attending segregated schools, childhood games, foodways, music, the 7th ward community, and recreation at Lincoln Beach. Adama then reflects on her own experiences growing up in New Orleans during the 1990s focusing on recreation, her difficulties in high school, and the inequities of the New Orleans school system.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
Neighborhood Story Project
City
New Orleans
Keywords
African Americans; Public Schools; Education; Segregation; Race; Recreation; 1950s; 1990s
Location
New Orleans--Seventh Ward; New Orleans--Ninth Ward
Disciplines
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Evans, Adama. “Growing Up In Downtown New Orleans.” A Guide to South Louisiana: Stories of Uncommon Culture, edited by Rachel Breunlin, Neighborhood Story Project, 2017.
Comments
The ethnographies in Guide to South Louisiana were created by students in Rachel Breunlin’s “Storytelling and Culture” course for the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans in the Spring of 2017.