Seeking higher ground [electronic resource] : the Hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader / edited by Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke-Avery.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Critical Black studies
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Seeking Higher Ground: The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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-Avery
- Property and security, political chameleons, and dysfunctional regime : a New Orleans story / Osei Robertson
- Hurricane Katrina as postscript to racialized spaces in Louisiana / K. Animashaun Ducre
- Interview: a conversation with Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle / Suzette Malveaux
- 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
- 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. and 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 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.