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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Manning Marable; Kristen Clarke |
| ISBN: | 9781403983961 1403983968 9781403977793 1403977798 |
| OCLC Number: | 129952587 |
| Description: | xvi, 320 pages ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Critical Black studies series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke-Avery. |
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Abstract:
Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America.
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"Seeking Higher Ground thoroughly examines every angle of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and offers smart, damning critiques of how individual and societal prejudice turned a natural disaster into a man-made catastrophe. After more than two years, this book reminds us of all the work still left to be done." - Donna Brazile, "This marvelous book is the most comprehensive and insightful examination of the most catastrophic event in recent American history." - Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University Read more...
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