Introduction: Katrina’s Imprint
Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O’Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd
Part One. The Tangled Logic of Vulnerability
Chapter 1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created
Environmental Injustice
Karen M. O’Neill
Chapter 2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the
Age of Katrina
Mia Bay
Chapter 3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological
Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America
Keith Wailoo
Chapter 4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism
and the Perfect Disaster
Roland Anglin
Part Two. Cultural and Psychic Legacies
Chapter 5. Seeing Katrina’s Dead
Ann Fabian
Chapter 6. Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the
Reemergence of New Orleans
Richard Mizelle Jr.
Chapter 7. Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of
Katrina
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Chapter 8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and
African American Experience
Evie Shockley
Part Three. “Starting Over” in Post-Katrina America
Chapter 9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005
Disaster Commentary
Keith Wailoo and Jeffrey Dowd
Chapter 10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to
Katrina
John R. Aiello and Lyra Stein
Chapter 11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters
William M. Rodgers III
Chapter 12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of
Segregation and Employment Inequality
Niki T. Dickerson
Part Four. Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth
Chapter 13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency
David Dante Troutt
Chapter 14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery
Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O’Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd
Subtitle: Race and
Vulnerability in America Edited by Keith Wailoo, Karen M.
O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, and Roland Anglin, With an Introduction
by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd Subject:Public Policy, American
Studies, Health
and Medicine Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4774-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4773-2 Pages:
224 pages Publication Date: July 2010 Series:Rutgers Studies on
Race and Ethnicity
Contributors
Ann Fabian; David Troutt; Evie Shockley;
John R. Aiello and Lyra Stein; Karen M. O'Neill; Keith Wailoo; Keith
Wailoo and Jeffrey Dowd; Keith Wailoo, Jeffrey Dowd, and Karen M.
O'Neill; Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd; Mia Bay;
Nancy Boyd-Franklin; Niki Dickerson; Richard Mizelle Jr.; Roland
Anglin; William Rodgers III
Praise for Katrina's Imprint:
"The intent [of Katrina's Imprint] is to reveal the human consequences of the city's devastation and to offer a moral perspective on what has been viewed too often as a failure of government, a 'natural' breakdown of technological systems. This volume reminds us of the persistence of racial divisions in American society and the many ways that African Americans are vulnerable to harm. Recommended."
—Choice
"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 regards to race and justice!"
—Cornel West, Princeton University Description Katrina’s Imprint highlights the power of
this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in
contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the
fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume
reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health
care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for
the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the
intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster, explore
the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process
of rebuilding and starting over replicates past vulnerabilities, and
analyze Katrina’s imprint alongside American’s myths of
self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have emerged in
our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot wait for the
next disaster before we apply the lessons that should be learned from
Katrina. About the Author:
KEITH WAILOO is the
Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs in the
Department of History in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs at Princeton University, and
the author and editor of several books, among them Dying in the City of
the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.
KAREN M. O’NEILL is a sociologist and associate professor of
human
ecology at Rutgers University, and the author of Rivers by Design:
State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control.
JEFFREY DOWD is a
Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at Rutgers University.
ROLAND V. ANGLIN is the director of the Initiative for Regional and
Community Transformation (IRCT) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of
Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University.
