In the wake of Hurricane Katrina : new paradigms and social visions

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    • Woods, Clyde

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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina : new paradigms and social visions

edited by Clyde Woods

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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. Investigations of public policies, organizations, social movements, and neoliberalism range from a traditional policy case study of the often-neglected Alabama and Mississippi experience to an analysis of urban social movements in New Orleans to a broad critique of local policy that has global implications. Innovative young scholars provide essays on music, literature, tourism, and gender. Interviews with key community leaders and historic poets round out the volume. The many social, political, racial, economic, and personal disasters that followed Katrina produced intellectual dilemmas. How could this happen in the wealthiest nation in the world? How could the U.S. government so callously abandon its citizens when they so desperately needed federal aid? Why was the most powerful military in the world unable or unwilling to act? Readers will find in this collection compelling answers to these, and other, complicated questions.

目次

Preface Introduction. Katrina's World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source Part I: Histories of Race, Gender, Sex, and Class Chapter 1. "More Desultory and Unconnected Than Any Other": Geography, Desire, and Freedom in Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life Chapter 2. "Justice Mocked": Violence and Accountability in New Orleans Part II: Activists and Institutions Chapter 3. Beyond Disaster Exceptionalism: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Chapter 4. Stories at the Center: Story Circles, Educational Organizing, and Fate of Neighborhood Public Schools in New Orleans Chapter 5. Of Armed Guards and Kente Cloth: Afro-Creole Catholics and the Battle for St. Augustine Parish in Post-Katrina New Orleans Chapter 6. The Politics of Reproductive Violence Part III: Culture, Music, and Performance Chapter 7. Jazz and Revival Chapter 8. Second Lining Post-Katrina: Learning Community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club Chapter 9. Upholding Community Traditions Chapter 10. On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing Chapter 11. "My FEMA People": Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora Chapter 12. "We Know This Place": Neoliberal Racial Regimes and the Katrina Circumstance Chapter 13. We Know This Place Part IV: Tourism Industrial Complex Chapter 14. Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans Chapter 15. "Roots Run Deep Here": The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives Part V: Geographies of Disaster Chapter 16. Les Miserables of New Orleans: Trap Economics and the Asset Stripping Blues, Part 1 Chapter 17. Freedom Land Chapter 18. After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast Region Chapter 19. Refugee Bodily Orbits Contributors Index

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