| Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America Contributor(s): Wailoo, Keith (Editor), Wailoo, Keith (Introduction by), O'Neill, Karen M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813547733 ISBN-13: 9780813547732 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - Social Science | Regional Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 976.044 |
| LCCN: 2009038466 |
| Series: Rutgers Studies in Race and Ethnicity |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.02 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |