Seeking higher ground : the Hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader / edited by Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Marable, Manning, 1950-2011
Clarke, Kristen
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical Black studies series.
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects.
Disasters > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disaster relief > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Marginality, Social > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African Americans > Government policy > Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations.
New Orleans (La.) > Politics and government.
Physical Description:xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Seeking higher ground : race, public policy and the Hurricane Katrina crisis / Manning Marable
  • 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 / D. Osei Robertson
  • Hurricane Katrina as an elaboration on an ongoing theme : racialized spaces in Louisiana / K. Animashaun Ducre
  • An interview with Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle / Suzette M. Malveaux
  • New Orleans's 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 Redwood
  • "Do you know what it means-- ?" : mapping emotion in the aftermath of Katrina / Melissa Harris-Lacewell
  • Witness: the racialized gender implications of Katrina / Kathleen A. Bergin
  • The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the race and class divide in America / Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and Dawood Sultan
  • Katrina's southern "exposure" : the Kanye race debate and the repercussions of discussion / Erica M. Czaja
  • Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss
  • 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 and 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, et al.