Womst 490:
Black Woman, Sport, and Home Post-Katrina
Professor Marita Gilbert
Tuesday and Thursday 3:00 – 4:15
A study of sport as a unique framework for understanding disaster recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans—and Black women’s interstitial politics of home. Theirs is the space on the periphery, the taken for granted area between the boundaries of race, gender, and belonging in the new New Orleans—at the center of visual and textual media narratives documenting the suffering of Hurricane Katrina. Yet, their testimony is largely missing from similar narratives capturing this moment of recovery. This course not only includes black women’s narratives, it centers black women’s excluded testimony to explore the meaning of the Saints to the recovery of home. May count towards a philosophy major or minor: consult a philosopher for determination.