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You can see both photos and their captions at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wagsoft.com/Looting/Looting.html">http://www.wagsoft.com/Looting/Looting.html</a><br>
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Also, photos + captions + commentary: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/triciawang/38922728/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/triciawang/38922728/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/01/photo_controversy/index.html">http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/01/photo_controversy/index.html</a><br>
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Yahoo has issued a news statement
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.yahoo.com/page/photostatement">http://news.yahoo.com/page/photostatement</a>) explaining why they removed
one of the photos. <br>
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Best<br>
Anne<br>
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Penrod, Diane wrote:
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Palatino Linotype" size="3">It
was the AP photos from the second or third day of the aftermath. CNN
had the photos with captions on TV, and Bill Maher's HBO weekly show
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Palatino Linotype">Sorry I can't give you
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<div><font color="#000000" size="2">Diane Penrod, PhD</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Professor, Writing Arts</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Site Director, National Writing Project at Rowan
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<div><font size="2">Graduate Program Advisor, MA in Writing</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Rowan University</font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><a href="mailto:penrod@rowan.edu">penrod@rowan.edu</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">856-256-4330</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">"Leap and the net will appear."</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> -- Zen proverb</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">"Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult..."</font></div>
<div><font size="2"> -- Anonymous student evaluation</font></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sat 9/3/2005 11:52 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: From Gulf to Gulf<br>
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<p><font size="2">Can you provide a cite on that?<br>
On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:16 AM, JULIA EVANS wrote:<br>
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> you might add that when the media was describing white people
breaking<br>
> into stores for food etc. they used<br>
> the turn borrowing.....<br>
><br>
> looting seems to be saved for minority populations, sadly<br>
> -J<br>
><br>
> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: Christian Nelson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cnelson@COMM.UMASS.EDU"><cnelson@COMM.UMASS.EDU></a><br>
> Date: Saturday, September 3, 2005 10:14 am<br>
> Subject: Re: From Gulf to Gulf<br>
><br>
>> An analysis of the discourse related to this event could really<br>
>> serve<br>
>> to cast a light on race/class relations in this country. Like
the<br>
>> others who've posted on this thread, I've been struck by the<br>
>> class/race<br>
>> disparities in the government's (non)response to this
disaster. (As<br>
>> another example, I learned that all the hospitals were quickly<br>
>> evacuated EXCEPT for the public ones, which serve the local
poor,<br>
>> and<br>
>> which were only evacuated when their situation had gotten so
dire<br>
>> that<br>
>> the administrators gave up begging the Louisiana Governor,
etc. for<br>
>> help and called a radio station to air their grievances.) Those<br>
>> disparities are clearly reflected in the media's discourse
about<br>
>> the<br>
>> people trapped in New Orleans--for instance, many of the
reports of<br>
>> "looting" I've heard turn out to be about people breaking into<br>
>> cafeterias, etc. to find food. I find it hard to call this
looting<br>
>> when<br>
>> engaged in by people who are running out of water and have gone<br>
>> without<br>
>> food for days, and when the food and drink involved will be<br>
>> uselessly<br>
>> spoiled LONG before anyone can retrieve it in order to sell it
(a<br>
>> process that would take weeks if not months by all accounts). I<br>
>> hope<br>
>> someone has the time and inclination to analyze this discourse
in<br>
>> order<br>
>> to expose the depths of racism and classism in America. Having
said<br>
>> that, I think some historical perspective might focus light on<br>
>> where<br>
>> that racism and classism is deepest. In that regard, I think
I'm<br>
>> remembering correctly that Bush Sr.'s loss to Clinton was in
some<br>
>> part<br>
>> attributable to the poor performance of his FEMA director in<br>
>> response<br>
>> to another but smaller disaster (in fact, I think it was
another<br>
>> hurricane--Hugo in '89, but I could be misremembering).
Further, I<br>
>> recall that Clinton was hailed for appointing James Lee Witt to<br>
>> head<br>
>> FEMA, as he was only the first FEMA director who had any<br>
>> professional<br>
>> disaster relief experience. (Witt proved his worth by reforming<br>
>> FEMA,<br>
>> and the Clinton administration went on to distinguish itself
for<br>
>> its<br>
>> responsiveness to natural disasters.) On the other hand, it
might<br>
>> also<br>
>> be useful to recall the words of Marilyn Quail (the wife of
Bush<br>
>> Sr.'s<br>
>> Vice President), who had chosen disaster relief as her pet
project.<br>
>> If<br>
>> memory serves, when asked about her experience with disasters
she<br>
>> said<br>
>> she didn't have any because she hadn't been "invited" to
one--as<br>
>> though<br>
>> these were cotillions.<br>
>> --Christian Nelson<br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
Deborah Keller-Cohen<br>
Professor, Linguistics and Women's Studies<br>
Program in Women's Studies<br>
2110 Lane Hall<br>
University of Michigan<br>
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285<br>
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