Katrina's Imprint : Race and Vulnerability in America Paperback / softback
Edited by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, Roland Anglin
Part of the Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:23/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780813547749
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:23/06/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780813547749
