Katrina's imprint : race and vulnerability in America / edited by Keith Wailoo ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wailoo, Keith.

Series:

Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity.

Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Disaster relief--Social aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Disaster relief.

Disaster relief--Social aspects--Gulf States.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Katrina’s Imprint

1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice

2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina

3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America

4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster

5. Seeing Katrina’s Dead

6. Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans

7. Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina

8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience

9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary

10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina

11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters

12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality

13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency

14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-38312-8

9786613383129

0-8135-4978-7

OCLC:

779141502