Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Katrina’s Imprint 1 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 9 KAREN M. O’NEILL 2 Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina 21 MIA BAY 3 A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America 34 KEITH WAILOO 4 The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster 45 ROLAND ANGLIN PART TWO Cultural and Psychic Legacies 5 Seeing Katrina’s Dead 59 ANN FABIAN v 6 Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans 69 RICHARD MIZELLE JR. 7 Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina 78 NANCY BOYD-FRANKLIN 8 The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience 95 EVIE SHOCKLEY PART THREE “Starting Over” in Post-Katrina America 9 Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary 117 KEITH WAILOO AND JEFFREY DOWD 10 Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina 135 JOHN R. AIELLO AND LYRA STEIN 11 The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters 154 WILLIAM M. RODGERS III 12 The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality 169 NIKI T. DICKERSON PART FOUR Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth 13 Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency 183 DAVID DANTE TROUTT 14 Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery 192 KEITH WAILOO, KAREN M. O’NEILL, AND JEFFREY DOWD Notes on Contributors 197 Index 201 CONTENTS vi ...