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Katrina's Imprint : Race and Vulnerability in America, PDF eBook

Katrina's Imprint : Race and Vulnerability in America PDF

Edited by Wailoo Keith Wailoo, O'Neill Karen M. O'Neill, Dowd Jeffrey Dowd, Anglin Roland Anglin

Part of the Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity series

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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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