| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
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Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity |
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Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Katrina's impact / Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd -- Who sank New Orleans? How engineering the river created environmental injustice / Karen M. O'Neill -- Invisible tethers: transportation and discrimination in the age of Katrina / Mia Bay -- A slow, toxic decline : dialysis patients, technological failure, and the unfulfilled promise of health in America / Keith Wailoo -- The ship of state: framing an understanding of federalism and the perfect disaster / Roland Anglin -- Seeing Katrina's dead / Ann Fabian -- Second-lining the jazz city: jazz funerals, Katrina, and the reemergence of New Orleans / Richard Mizelle Jr. -- Racism, trauma and resilience: the psychological impact of Katrina / Nancy Boyd-Franklin -- The haunted houses of New Orleans: Gothic homelessness and African American experience / Evie Shockley -- Rebroadcasting Katrina: blame, vulnerability, and post-2005 disaster commentary / Keith Wailoo and Jeffrey Dowd -- Protecting our assets: private and public responses to Katrina / John R. Aiello and Lyra Stein -- The labor market impact of natural disasters / William M. Rodgers III -- The Katrina diaspora: dislocation and the reproduction of segregation and employment inequality / Niki T. Dickerson -- Katrina and the myth of self-sufficiency / David Dante Troutt -- Race, vulnerability, and recovery / Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd |
| Summary |
"This book is the best treatment we have of the American catastrophe called Katrina. These sophisticated views and powerful voices constitute the most formidable challenge to each of us in regard to race and justice!"--Cornel West, Princeton University |
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Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this seminal American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed vulnerability and resilience and shape prospects for the recovery of New Orleans and the Gulf region. A multifaceted, wide-ranging case study of race in America, this book offers an argument for why we cannot wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons we have learned from Katrina. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Gulf States
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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MEDICAL -- General.
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Louisiana -- New Orleans
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United States
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United States -- Gulf States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wailoo, Keith.
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O'Neill, Karen M
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Dowd, Jeffrey
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Anglin, Roland
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| ISBN |
9780813549781 |
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0813549787 |
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