Katrina's Imprint : : Race and Vulnerability in America / / ed. by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, Roland Anglin.

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 trans...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780813549781
9783110688610
DOI:10.36019/9780813549781
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, Roland Anglin.