基本説明
Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation's long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era.
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Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation's long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others explore how reaction to the hurricane's aftermath is rooted in the region's history. Uniquely combining humanities and social sciences research, the contributors reevaluate the political, social, and economic dynamics that existed before this "natural" disaster and the subsequent responses and actions, or lack thereof. Investigations of public policies, organizations, social movements, and neoliberalism range from a traditional policy case study of the often-neglected Alabama and Mississippi experience to an analysis of urban social movements in New Orleans to a broad critique of local policy that has global implications. Innovative young scholars provide essays on music, literature, tourism, and gender. Interviews with key community leaders and historic poets round out the volume.
The many social, political, racial, economic, and personal disasters that followed Katrina produced intellectual dilemmas. How could this happen in the wealthiest nation in the world? How could the U.S. government so callously abandon its citizens when they so desperately needed federal aid? Why was the most powerful military in the world unable or unwilling to act? Readers will find in this collection compelling answers to these, and other, complicated questions.
Contents
Preface
Introduction. Katrina's World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source
Part I: Histories of Race, Gender, Sex, and Class
Chapter 1. "More Desultory and Unconnected Than Any Other": Geography, Desire, and Freedom in Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life
Chapter 2. "Justice Mocked": Violence and Accountability in New Orleans
Part II: Activists and Institutions
Chapter 3. Beyond Disaster Exceptionalism: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Chapter 4. Stories at the Center: Story Circles, Educational Organizing, and Fate of Neighborhood Public Schools in New Orleans
Chapter 5. Of Armed Guards and Kente Cloth: Afro-Creole Catholics and the Battle for St. Augustine Parish in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Chapter 6. The Politics of Reproductive Violence
Part III: Culture, Music, and Performance
Chapter 7. Jazz and Revival
Chapter 8. Second Lining Post-Katrina: Learning Community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club
Chapter 9. Upholding Community Traditions
Chapter 10. On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing
Chapter 11. "My FEMA People": Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora
Chapter 12. "We Know This Place": Neoliberal Racial Regimes and the Katrina Circumstance
Chapter 13. We Know This Place
Part IV: Tourism Industrial Complex
Chapter 14. Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
Chapter 15. "Roots Run Deep Here": The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives
Part V: Geographies of Disaster
Chapter 16. Les Misérables of New Orleans: Trap Economics and the Asset Stripping Blues, Part 1
Chapter 17. Freedom Land
Chapter 18. After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast Region
Chapter 19. Refugee Bodily Orbits
Contributors
Index
