Format:
1 online resource (221 pages)
ISBN:
9780813549781
Series Statement:
Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity Ser
Content:
Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster, explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of rebuilding and starting over replicates past vulnerabilities, and analyze Katrina's imprint alongside American's myths of self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have emerged in our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons that should be learned from Katrina.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- Who Sank New Orleans? -- Invisible Tethers -- A Slow, Toxic Decline -- The Ship of State -- PART TWO -- Seeing Katrina's Dead -- Second-Lining the Jazz City -- Racism, Trauma, and Resilience -- The Haunted Housesof New Orleans -- PART THREE -- Rebroadcasting Katrina -- Protecting Our Assets -- The Labor Market Impactof Natural Disasters -- The Katrina Diaspora -- PART FOUR -- Katrina and the Mythof Self-Sufficiency -- Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813547732
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813547732
Language:
English
