Title
On the Road: Truck Driving & Fatherhood
Files
Interviewee
Roderick Norris
Description
Tamera Norris writes about her childhood and teenage years in New Orleans and her close relationship with her father Roderick Norris. Roderick was raised in a tight-knight community in the Iberville Housing Development, and later moved to the Lower Ninth Ward to start a family. Tamera details her passion for dancing, life changes after Hurricane Katrina, and the sacrifices her father made to maintain a supportive and stable home life. Tamera especially values how her father helped her develop a sense of pride in her identity as a black woman. Roderick and Tamera discuss his occupation as a truck driver, fatherhood, and their shared values.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publisher
Neighborhood Story Project
City
New Orleans
Keywords
Fatherhood; Parenting; Childhood; Dance; Labor; Race; Class; Identity; Truck Driving; African American; Hurricane Katrina; Iberville Housing Project; Lower Ninth Ward
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana; Tremé
Disciplines
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Norris, Tamera, "On the Road: Truck Driving & Fatherhood" (2017). 7.Safety. 3.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/safety/3
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.