The Great Unbuilding: Land, Labor, and Dispossession in New Orleans and Honduras

Links to Files

https://www.southerncultures.org/article/the-great-unbuilding/

Permanent Link

http://hdl.handle.net/11603/41943

Collections

UMBC Faculty Collection
UMBC American Studies Department

Author/Creator

Author/Creator ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8278-8545

Date

2021-07-14

Type of Work

journal articles
Text

Department

Program

Citation of Original Publication

Daser, Deniz, and Sarah Fouts. “The Great Unbuilding: Land, Labor, and Dispossession in New Orleans and Honduras.” Southern Cultures 27, no. 2 (2021). https://www.southerncultures.org/article/the-great-unbuilding/.

Rights

This item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.

Subjects

Abstract

When the body of Jose Ponce Arreola—one of three workers killed during the October 12, 2019 collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans—was finally removed from the hotel ruins in August 2020, the press asked his brother, Sergio, what should be built once the rubble was cleared. Sergio said, “A park dedicated to the workers who died.” The reporter followed up, “No hotel?” He replied pithily, “No.”