Seeking Higher Ground The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader

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Pub. Date: 12/15/2007
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

In this powerful reader, scholars and writers examine the racial impact of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the failure of governmental, corporate, and private agencies to responds to the plight of the New Orleans black community. This reader is the second volume of the Critical Black Studies Series, edited by Manning Marable, and produced by the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University.

Author Biography

Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University.  Kristen Clarke works with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educations Fund, Inc., handling voting rights matters and legal problems resulting from the Hurricane Katrina Crisis.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. vii
Introduction: Seeking Higher Ground: Race, Public Policy and the Hurricane Katrina Crisisp. ix
Politics and Place
The New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Voting Rights Act and the Politics of Return and Rebuildp. 3
The New Orleans That Race Built: Racism, Disaster, and Urban Spatial Relationshipsp. 17
Race-ing the Post-Katrina Political Landscape: An Analysis of the 2006 New Orleans Electionp. 33
Property and Security, Political Chameleons, and Dysfunctional Regime: A New Orleans Storyp. 39
Hurricane Katrina as an Elaboration on an Ongoing Theme: Racialized Spaces in Louisianap. 65
An Interview with Judge Ivan L. R. Lemellep. 75
Culture, Tradition, and Identity
New Orleans's African American Musical Traditions: The Spirit and Soul of a Cityp. 87
Hero, Eulogist, Trickster, and Critic: Ritual and Crisis in Post-Katrina Mardi Grasp. 107
(Re)Imagining Ethnicity in the City of New Orleans: Katrina's Geographical Allegoryp. 129
The Rebuilding of a Tourist Industry: Immigrant Labor Exploitation in the Post-Katrina Reconstruction of New Orleansp. 141
Race and Repression
"Do You Know What It Means...?": Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrinap. 153
Witness: The Racialized Gender Implications of Katrinap. 173
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Race and Class Divide in Americap. 191
Katrina's Southern "Exposure": The Kanye Race Debate and the Repercussions of Discussionp. 203
Oral History, Folklore, and Katrinap. 225
Reimagining the Past and Reconstructing the Future
What Happens When the Footprints Shrink: New Orleans and the End of Eminencep. 243
"The City I Used to...Visit": Tourist New Orleans and the Racialized Response to Hurricane Katrinap. 255
The Social Construction of Disaster: New Orleans as the Paradigmatic American Cityp. 271
Are They Katrina's Kids or Ours? The Experience of Displaced New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communitiesp. 295
Envisioning "Complete Recovery" as an Alternative to "Unmitigated Disaster"p. 303
About the Authorsp. 312
Indexp. 318
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