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Frameworks Of Recovery: Exploring The Intersection Of Policy & Decision-Making Processes After Hurricane Katrina, Kim Mosby

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This study seeks to understand how local and national newspaper articles and African American residents frame obstacles to returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It explores how recovery planning processes and policy changes influenced the decision-making processes of African Americans displaced to Houston through a content analysis of the media and qualitative interviews with displaced and returned residents. The study shows the media and participants framed disaster recovery policies as creating opportunities and gaps in assistance that varied by location. Participants described how policy decisions that created gaps in assistance compounded the difficulty of returning for working- and middle-class …

Ideology, Race, And The Death Penalty: "Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics" In Advocacy Research, Anthony Walsh, Virginia Hatch

Journal of Ideology

We use the literature on race in death penalty to illustrate the hold that ideology has on researchers and journalists alike when a social issue is charged with emotional content. We note particularly how statistical evidence become misinterpreted in ways that support a particular ideology, either because of innumeracy or because—subconsciously or otherwise—one’s ideology precludes a critical analysis. We note that because white defendants are now proportionately more likely to receive the death penalty and to be executed than black defendants that the argument has shifted from a defendant-based to a victim-based one. We examine studies based on identical data …

Red Drops For A Rainbow, Zakiya A. Brown

SURGE

Splashes of pool water licked my ankles, scenting my coffee-colored toes with chlorine. Bareback guardians, robed in red, hovered high as flocks of fleshy tangible innocence skipped jubilantly across the pool deck and disappeared into a wet square pocket of sapphire. [excerpt of poem]

Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal Commission, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Documents housed in Folder 24 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding the Urban Renewal Commission. Includes correspondence and lists of property purchased.

• Downing, Dero
• Largen, Harry
• Memo to Kelly Thompson from Dero Downing outlining paperwork needed to add properties to the Jonesville Renewal Project with exhibits:
• Exhibit 1: letter from Arch Daniels to Kelly Thompson
• Exhibit 2: letter from Kelly Thompson to Charles Cherches
• Exhibit 3: letter from Charles Cherches to Kelly Thompson
• Exhibit 4: list of WKU purchases along Russellville Road prior to Jonesville Project. List is in lot number order and lists date purchased, grantee, property description …

Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Documents housed in Folder 21 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. Includes correspondence, project budgets, planning map and agreements.

• Agreement between Bowling Green Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency & WKU, 4/16/1965
• Bates, Georgia
• Downing, Dero
• Kentucky. Dept. of Finance
• Jonesville
• Lawson, Owen
• Milliken & Milliken
• Resolution That the Commission Council Amend the Jonesville Urban Renewal Loan & Grant Contract to Include an Additional $25,000.00 Non Cash Credit, nd
• Taylor, J.H.
• Thompson, Kelly
• Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency

Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Documents housed in Folder 22 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. The documents are undated and include agreements, budgets and a list of properties.

• Agreement between Bowling Green and the Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency, nd
• Bowling Green. City Council
• Estimate of Federal Grant Requirements
• Jonesville
• List of Jonesville property by Lot Number, listing owner, 1st, 2nd & 3rd appraisal, HHFA amount
• Thompson, Kelly
• Urban Renewal Plan, nd

Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Documents housed in Folder 23 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. This file is comprised entirely of newspaper clippings:

• Almost $2 Million in Federal Funds Set for Renewal Work, PCDN, 7/18/1962
• Bowling Green’s Loop District, PCDN, 7/18/1962
• Chances of Early Okay for Project Improved, PCDN, 7/21/1963
• Disquieting Assault on Urban Renewal, np, 3/30/1964
• Duncan, Tom. Two Votes Advance Renewal Planning, LCJ, 3/17/1964
• Duncan, Tom. Western to Expand in 33-Acre Tract, LCJ, 3/17/1964
• Extension of Adams Street Hits Snag, np, 11/12/1963
• Hearing Set on Western’s Development Plans, np, 2/14/1964
• Jonesville Project Established, np, 3/17/1964
• Okay Part …

Ua3/3/1 Urban Renewal, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Documents housed in Folder 20 of President Kelly Thompson's Subject/Correspondence File regarding urban renewal in Jonesville. Documents include correspondence, agreements, campus development plan, draft ordinances and a list of property purchased by Western Kentucky University.

• Addendum to Agreement between Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency and Bowling Green, 1/15/1964
• Agreement between Bowling Green Urban Renewal & Community Development Agency and WKU, 11/4/1964
• Campus Development Plan
• Downing, Dero
• Jonesville
• Kentucky. Dept. of Finance
• List of owners
• Ordinance Approving the Development Program or Plan of Western Kentucky State College
• Taylor Heads Group Opposing Urban Renewal, PCDN, 2/27/1964
• Taylor, J.H.
• Thompson, Kelly
• U.S. …