Seeking Higher Ground The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader
by Marable, Manning; Clarke, Kristen
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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
Seeking Higher Ground: Race, Public Policy, and the Hurricane Katrina Crisis | |
Politics and Place | |
The New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Voting Rights Act and the Politics of Return and Rebuild | |
The New Orleans that Race Built: Racism, Disaster, and Urban Spatial Relationships | |
Race-ing the Post-Katrina Political Landscape: An Analysis of the 2006 New Orleans Election | |
Property and Security, Political Chameleons, and Dysfunctional Regime: A New Orleans Story | |
Hurricane Katrina as Postscript to Racialized Spaces in Louisiana | |
Interview: A Conversation with | |
Culture, Tradition, and Identity | |
New Orleans' African American Musical Traditions: The Spirit and Soul of a City | |
Hero, Eulogist, Trickster, and Critic: Ritual and Crisis in Post-Katrina Mardi Gras | |
(Re)Imagining Ethnicity in the City of New Orleans: Katrina's Geographical Allegory | |
The Rebuilding of a Tourist Industry: Immigrant Labor Exploitation in the Post-Katrina Reconstruction of New Orleans | |
Race and Repression | |
"Do You Know What It Means?:" Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrina | |
Witness: The Gendered Implications of Katrina | |
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Race and Class Divide in America | |
Katrina's Southern "Exposure:" The Kanye Race Debate and the Repercussions of Discussion | |
Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina | |
Reimagining the Past and Reconstructing the Future | |
What Happens When the Footprints Shrink: New Orleans and the End of Eminence | |
"The City I Used to…Visit:" Tourist New Orleans and the Racialized Response to Hurricane Katrina | |
The Social Construction of Disaster: New Orleans as the Paradigmatic American City | |
Are They Katrina's Kids or Ours?: The Experience of Displaced New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communities | |
Envisioning "Complete Recovery" as an Alternative to "Unmitigated Disaster" | |
Seeking Higher Ground: Race, Public Policy, and the | |
Part I | |
The New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Voting Rights Act and the Politics of Return and Rebuild | |
The New Orleans that Race Built: Racism, Disaster, and Urban Spatial Relationships | |
Race-ing the Post-Katrina Political Landscape: An Analysis of the 2006 New Orleans | |
Property and Security, Political Chameleons, and Dysfunctional Regime: A New Orleans Story | |
Hurricane Katrina as Postscript to Racialized Spaces in Louisiana | |
Interview: A Conversation with | |
Part II | |
New Orleans' African American Musical Traditions: The Spirit and Soul of a City | |
Hero, Eulogist, Trickster, and Critic: Ritual and Crisis in Post-Katrina Mardi Gras | |
(Re)Imagining Ethnicity in the City of New Orleans: Katrina's Geographical Allegory | |
The Rebuilding of a Tourist Industry: Immigrant Labor Exploitation in the Post-Katrina Reconstruction of New Orleans | |
Part III | |
"Do You Know What It Means?:" Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrina | |
Witness: The Gendered Implications of Katrina | |
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Race and Class Divide in America | |
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