Research Catalog

Title

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina : new paradigms and social visions / edited by Clyde Woods.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woods, Clyde Adrian

Description

ix, 422 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Summary

• Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation's long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others explore how reaction to the hurricane's aftermath is rooted in the region's history. Uniquely combining humanities and social sciences research, the contributors reevaluate the political, social, and economic dynamics that existed before this 'natural' disaster and the subsequent responses and actions, or lack thereof.
• Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, this title includes essays that suggest that the nation's long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a different era.

Uniform Title

American quarterly.

Subject

• 2005
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• Hurricanes > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans
• New Orleans (La.) > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "These articles were originally published in the September 2009 issue of American Quarterly"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is a disaster? / Clyde Woods -- Katrina's world : blues, bourbon, and the return to the source / Clyde Woods -- "More desultory and unconnected than any other" : geography, desire, and freedom in Eliza Potter's A hairdresser's experience in high life / Lisa Ze Winters -- "Justice mocked" : violence and accountability in New Orleans / LaKisha Michelle Simmons -- Beyond disaster exceptionalism : social movement developments in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina / Rachael E. Luft -- Stories at the center : story circles, educational organizing, and fate of neighborhood public schoold in New Orleans / Catherine Michna -- Of armed guards and Kente cloth : Afro-Creole Catholics and the battle for St. Augustine Parish in post-Katrina New Orleans / Trushna Parekh -- The politics of reproductive violence : an interview with Shana Griffin by Clyde Woods, March 12, 2009 -- Jazz and revival / Eric Porter -- Second lining post-Katrina : learning community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club / Joel Dinerstein -- Upholding community traditions : an interview with Cherice Harrison-Nelson by Clyde Woods, March 1, 2009 -- On conjuring Mahalia : Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the sanctified swing / Johari Jabir -- "My FEMA people" : hip-hop as disaster recovery in the Katrina diaspora / Zenia Kish -- "We know this place" : neoliberal racial regimes and the Katrina circumstance / Jordan T. Camp -- We know this place / Sunni Patterson -- Katrina tourism and a tale of two cities : visualizing race and class in New Orleans / Anna Hartnell -- "Roots run deep here" : the construction of Black New Orleans in post-Katrina tourism narratives / Lynnell L. Thomas -- Les misérables of New Orleans : trap economics and the asset stripping blues, part 1 / Clyde Woods -- Freedom land / 2-Cent Freedom Project -- After Katrina : racial regimes and human development barriers in the Gulf Coast region / Jeffrey S. Lowe and Todd C. Shaw -- Refugee bodily orbits / Long T. Bui.

ISBN

• 0801895618
• 9780801895616

OCLC

• 498932517
• SCSB-10648377

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library