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

Other author Marable, Manning, 1950-2011.
Other author Clarke-Avery, Kristen.
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionxvi, 320 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.
Disasters--Social aspects. --Louisiana. --New Orleans.
Disaster relief--Louisiana. --New Orleans.
Marginality, Social--Louisiana. --New Orleans.
African Americans--Government policy. --Louisiana. --New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
New Orleans (La.)--Politics and government.

SeriesCritical Black studies
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007019542
ISBN9781403983961
ISBN9781403977793 (pbk.)