Title
Moving To Da East: Stories From McKendall Estates
Files
Interviewee
Denise Fletcher
Description
Kayla Fletcher grew up in New Orleans East, and she reviews the history of the area, her upbringing in the McKendall Estates subdivision, and her family’s roots in New Orleans. Denise Fletcher, Kayla’s mother, describes her childhood in the Lafitte Public Housing Development and how her difficult family life drove her to seek education, class mobility, and financial stability. The Fletcher’s view their home and close-knit community life in McKendall Estates of New Orleans as an achievement of these aims. Kayla also notes how Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans East and her neighborhood.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publisher
Neighborhood Story Project
City
New Orleans
Keywords
African American; Race; Colorism; Class; New Orleans East; White flight; Suburbanization; Hurricane Katrina; Lafitte Public Housing Development
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana; New York City, New York
Disciplines
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Fletcher, Kayla, "Moving To Da East: Stories From McKendall Estates" (2017). 7.Safety. 1.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/safety/1
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.