Seeking higher ground
Subtitle: the Hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader
By: edited by Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke
Contributors: Marable, Manning, 1950-; Clarke, Kristen
Edition: 1st ed
Series: The critical Black studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781403983961; 9781403977793
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Seeking higher ground : race, public policy and the Hurricane Katrina crisis / Manning Marable; title: The New Orleans mayoral election : the Voting Rights Act and the politics of return and rebuild / Ronald Walters; title: The New Orleans that race built : racism, disaster, and urban spatial relationships / Darwin Bond Graham; title: Race-ing the post-Katrina political landscape : an analysis of the 2006 New Orleans election / Kristen Clarke; title: Property and security, political chameleons, and dysfunctional regime : a New Orleans story / D. Osei Robertson; title: Hurricane Katrina as an elaboration on an ongoing theme : racialized spaces in Louisiana / K. Animashaun Ducre; title: An interview with Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle / Suzette M. Malveaux; title: New Orleans's African American musical traditions : the spirit and soul of a city / Michael White; title: Hero, eulogist, trickster, and critic : ritual and crisis in post-Katrina Mardi Gras / Chelsey Louise Kivland; title: (Re)imagining ethnicity in the city of New Orleans : Katrina's geographical allegory / Stephanie Houston Grey; title: The rebuilding of a tourist industry : immigrant labor exploitation in the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans / Loren Redwood; title: "Do you know what it means; title: ?" : mapping emotion in the aftermath of Katrina / Melissa Harris-Lacewell; title: Witness: the racialized gender implications of Katrina / Kathleen A. Bergin; title: The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the race and class divide in America / Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and Dawood Sultan; title: Katrina's southern "exposure" : the Kanye race debate and the repercussions of discussion / Erica M. Czaja; title: Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss; title: What happens when the footprints shrink : New Orleans and the end of eminence / Julianne Malveaux; title: "The city I used to; title: visit" : tourist New Orleans and the racialized response to Hurricane Katrina / Lynell Thomas; title: The social construction of disaster : New Orleans as the paradigmatic American city / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires; title: Are they Katrina's kids or ours? the experience of displaced New Orleans students in their new schools and communities / Kevin Michael Foster; title: Envisioning "complete recovery" as an alternative to "unmitigated disaster" / Mindy Thompson Fullilove, et al