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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Katrina's Imprint by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd
Part One: The Tangled Logic of Vulnerability
1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice by Karen M. O'Neill
2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina by Mia Bay
3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America by Keith Wailoo
4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster by Roland Anglin
Part Two: Cultural and Psychic Legacies
5. Seeing Katrina's Dead by Ann Fabian
6. Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans by Richard Mizelle Jr.
7. Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina by Nancy Boyd-Franklin
8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience by Evie Shockley
Part Three: "Starting Over" in Post-Katrina America
9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary by Keith Wailoo and Jeffrey Dowd
10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina by John R. Aiello and Lyra Stein
11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters by William M. Rodgers III
12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality by Niki T. DIckerson
Part Four: Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth
13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency by David Dante Troutt
14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd
Notes on Contributors
Index
