Seeking higher ground The Hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader /
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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Critical black studies |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230610095 |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
Carrier Form: | 336 p. |
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9781403983961 9780230610095 : 0230610099 : |
CLC: | C91 |
Contents: | Seeking Higher Ground: Race, Public Policy, and the Hurricane Katrina Crisis - Manning Marable * PART I: POLITICS AND PLACE * The New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Voting Rights Act and the Politics of Return and Rebuild - Ronald Walters * The New Orleans that Race Built: Racism, Disaster, and Urban Spatial Relationships - Darwin Bond Graham * Race-ing the Post-Katrina Political Landscape: An Analysis of the 2006 New Orleans Election - Kristen Clarke * Property and Security, Political Chameleons, and Dysfunctional Regime: A New Orleans Story - Osei Robertson * Hurricane Katrina as Postscript to Racialized Spaces in Louisiana - Animashaun Ducre * Interview: A Conversation with Judge Ivan L. R. Lemelle - Suzette Malveaux * PART II: CULTURE, TRADITION, AND IDENTITY * New Orleans' African American Musical Traditions: The Spirit and Soul of a City - Michael White * Hero, Eulogist, Trickster, and Critic: Ritual and Crisis in Post-Katrina Mardi Gras - Chelsey Louise Kivland * (Re)Imagining Ethnicity in the City of New Orleans: Katrina's Geographical Allegory - Stephanie Houston Grey * The Rebuilding of a Tourist Industry: Immigrant Labor Exploitation in the Post-Katrina Reconstruction of New Orleans - Loren K. Redwood * PART III: RACE AND REPRESSION * "Do You Know What It Means?:" Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrina - Melissa Harris-Lacewell * Witness: The Gendered Implications of Katrina - Kathleen A. Bergin * The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Race and Class Divide in America - Thomas J. Durant, Jr. & Dawood Sultan * Katrina's Southern "Exposure:" The Kanye Race Debate and the Repercussions of Discussion - Erica Czaja * Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina - Alan H. Stein & Gene B. Preuss * PART IV: REIMAGINING THE PAST AND RECONSTRUCTING THE FUTURE * What Happens When the Footprints Shrink: New Orleans and the End of Eminence - Julianne Malveaux * "The City I Used to ...Visit:" Tourist New Orleans and the Racialized Response to Hurricane Katrina - Lynell Thomas * The Social Construction of Disaster: New Orleans as the Paradigmatic American City - Chester Hartman & Gregory D. Squires * Are They Katrina's Kids or Ours?: The Experience of Displaced New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communities - Kevin Michael Foster * Envisioning "Complete Recovery" as an Alternative to "Unmitigated Disaster" - Mindy Thompson Fullilove. |