Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America - Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in paper. Jacket Description/Flap: "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. 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. Review Quotes: "This book is the best treatment we have of the American catastrophe c--Cornel West"Princeton University" (02/02/2010) Biographical Note: KEITH WAILOO is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers 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. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Katrina's Imprint / Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd -- Part 1. The Tangled Logic of Vulnerability -- 1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice / Karen M. O'Neill -- 2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina / Mia Bay -- 3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America / Keith Wailoo -- 4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster / Roland Anglin -- Part 2. Cultural and Psychic Legacies -- 5. Seeing Katrina's Dead / Ann Fabian -- 6. Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans / Richard Mizelle Jr. -- 7. Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina / Nancy Boyd-Franklin -- 8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience / Evie Shockley -- Part 3. Starting Over in Post-Katrina America -- 9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary / Keith Wailoo, Jeffrey Dowd -- 10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina / John R. Aiello, Lyra Stein -- 11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters / William M. Rodgers III -- 12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality / Nikt T. Dickerson -- Part 4. Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth -- 13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency / David Dante Troutt -- 14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery / Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. Review Citations:

Choice 12/01/2010 (EAN 9780813547732, Hardcover)

Choice 12/01/2010 (EAN 9780813547749, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Wailoo, Keith Author of the award-winning "Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America", Keith Wailoo is Martin Luther King Professor of History, jointly appointed in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, at Rutgers University. In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science. Contributor Bio:  O'Neill, Karen M 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". Contributor Bio:  Dowd, Jeffrey Jeffrey Dowd is a Ph. D. candidate in the sociology department at Rutgers UniversityContributor Bio:  Anglin, Roland V Roland V. Anglin is faculty fellow at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and directs the Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation, supporting the transformation of marginalized communities through applied research and program management. He is the coeditor of Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U. S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita (2011) and Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (2010), and the author of Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development (2010).