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100 1 $aPerry, James,$d1975-$einterviewee.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009098805
245 10 $aOral history interview with James Perry, May 25, 2006 :$binterview U-0251, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
246 1 $iAlso cited as:$aInterview U-0251, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
246 30 $aInterview with James Perry, May 25, 2006
250 $aElectronic ed.
260 $aChapel Hill, N.C. :$bUniversity Library, UNC-Chapel Hill,$c2008.
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534 $pOriginal version:$tSouthern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series U, The long civil rights movement: the South since the 1960s, interview U-0251, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$nOriginal transcript: 39 p.
520 $aJames Perry describes how his work experience and his passion for civil rights fueled his interest in housing rights for low-income people. Born to educator parents in New Orleans East, he learned to be appreciative of how the civil rights movements benefited African Americans. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of New Orleans in the late 1990s, Perry discovered there were few job opportunities outside of the service and tourism sectors in New Orleans. Intent on remaining in his hometown, Perry found a job working at the Preservation Resource Center, an organization responsible for renovating vacant historic houses. His early interest in civil rights and his work experience in the housing market informed his later career as the executive director of the New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, which helps provide low-cost fair housing for low-income residents and which investigates housing discrimination. Perry concludes that discrimination is often obscured through civility and courteousness. While his work focuses on legal strategies to buttress housing equity provisions, Perry acknowledges the practical difficulty of moving beyond the region's negative racial past. The trend of replacing segregated public housing with mixed-income housing was complicated by Hurricane Katrina. The storm merely illuminated a history of class and racial segregation, and federal and local government housing agencies perpetuated it by privileging middle-class interests over those of poorer residents, says Perry. He argues that low-income residents who had hoped to return to the newly constructed buildings were frequently prevented from doing so. Perry also discusses the role the media played in post-Katrina New Orleans. They projected the image of Mayor Ray Nagin as helpful to evacuees' cause as he berated FEMA for its inefficiency, he says; however, Perry argues that Nagin's rejection of additional trailers actually prevented evacuees' return to New Orleans. Perry notes that a flurry of civil rights activity swept Katrina-like through New Orleans with intense energy, but the storm's aftermath left the ground fallow, and civil rights organizers were unable to maintain activists' fervor to protest social injustices. He discusses the new jobs and industries that cropped up following the devastation inflicted by Katrina--jobs that are vital to attracting a vibrant middle class back to New Orleans. Perhaps more important to Perry is the national scrutiny that forced the nation and native Louisianans to address racial and economic disparities in New Orleans.
516 $aText (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 144 kilobytes, 141 megabytes.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
538 $aSystem requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
500 $aTitle from menu page (viewed on June 23, 2009).
500 $aInterview participants: James Perry, interviewee; Andy Horowitz, interviewer.
500 $aDuration: 01:17:31.
500 $aThis electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
500 $aText encoded by Kristin Shaffer. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
536 $aFunding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
600 10 $aPerry, James,$d1975-$vInterviews.
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650 0 $aDiscrimination in housing$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans.
650 0 $aLow-income housing$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans.
650 0 $aHousing policy$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bDepartment of Housing and Urban Development.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049260
650 0 $aInternally displaced persons$xHousing$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans.
650 0 $aHurricanes$xEconomic aspects$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans.
651 0 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aHurricane Katrina, 2005.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005006058
655 7 $aElectronic books.
700 1 $aHorowitz, Andy$q(Andrew Deutsch),$einterviewer.$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009098809
710 2 $aSouthern Oral History Program.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93053150
710 2 $aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$bDocumenting the American South (Project)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96056901
710 2 $aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.$bLibrary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80120860
740 0 $aOral histories of the American South.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio7244460$3Documenting the American South full text and audio access
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