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Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.
Disasters--Social aspects--New Orleans.--New Orleans.
Disaster relief--New Orleans.--New Orleans.
Marginality, Social--New Orleans.--New Orleans.
African Americans--Government policy--New Orleans.--New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
New Orleans (La.)--Politics and government.

Other Authors:

Marable, Manning, 1950-
Clarke, Kristen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Rebuilding of a tourist industry : immigrant labor exploitation in the post Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans / Loren Redwood -- Politics and place. New Orleans mayoral election : the Voting Rights Act and the politics of return and rebuild / Ronald Walters -- 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 -- Interview with Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle / Suzette M. Malveaux -- Culture, tradition, and identity. 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 -- Rebuilding of a tourist industry : immigrant labor exploitation in the post Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans / Loren Redwood --
Envisioning "complete recovery" as an alternative to "unmitigated disaster" / "Do you know what it means... ?" : mapping emotion in the aftermath of Katrina / Mindy Thompson Fullilove Witness : the racialized gender implications of Katrina / Kathleen A. Bergin -- 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 M. Czaja -- Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein, Gene B. Preuss -- Reimagining the past and reconstructing the future. What happens when the footprints shrink : New Orleans and the end of eminence / Julianne Malveaux -- "City I used to... visit" : tourist New Orleans and the racialized response to Hurricane Katrina / Lynell Thomas -- 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 ...[et al].

Series:

The critical Black studies series

ISBN:

9781403977793
1403977798
9781403983961
1403983968

LCCN:

2007019542

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)