UID:
edocfu_9959236285702883
Format:
1 online resource (221 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-38312-8
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9786613383129
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0-8135-4978-7
Series Statement:
Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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Introduction: Katrina’s Imprint --
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1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice --
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2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina --
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3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America --
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4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster --
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5. Seeing Katrina’s Dead --
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6. Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans --
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7. Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina --
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8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience --
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9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary --
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10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina --
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11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters --
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12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality --
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13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency --
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14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery --
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --
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INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8135-4773-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9780813549781
