American Quarterly
Volume 61, Number 3, September 2009
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E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678
Table of Contents

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In the Wake of Katrina:
New Paradigms and Social Visions
Edited by Clyde Woods
Preface
What Is a Disaster?
pp. ix-xi
Introduction
Katrina’s World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source
pp. 427-453
Histories of Race, Gender, Sex and Class
“More desultory and unconnected than any other”: Geography, Desire, and Freedom in Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life
pp. 455-475
“Justice Mocked”: Violence and Accountability in New Orleans
pp. 477-498
Activists and Institutions
Beyond Disaster Exceptionalism: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
pp. 499-527
Stories at the Center: Story Circles, Educational Organizing, and Fate of Neighborhood Public Schools in New Orleans
pp. 529-555
Of Armed Guards and Kente Cloth: Afro-Creole Catholics and the Battle for St. Augustine Parish in Post-Katrina New Orleans
pp. 557-581
The Politics of Reproductive Violence: An Interview with Shana Griffin by Clyde Woods, March 12, 2009
pp. 583-591
Culture, Music and Performance
Jazz and Revival
pp. 593-613
Second Lining Post-Katrina: Learning Community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club
pp. 615-637
Upholding Community Traditions: An Interview with Cherice Harrison-Nelson by Clyde Woods, March 1, 2009
pp. 639-648
On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing
pp. 649-669
“My FEMA People”: Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora
pp. 671-692
“We Know This Place”: Neoliberal Racial Regimes and the Katrina Circumstance
pp. 693-717
We Know This Place
pp. 719-721
Tourism Industrial Complex
Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
pp. 723-747
“Roots Run Deep Here”: The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives
pp. 749-768
Geographies of Disaster
Les Misérables of New Orleans: Trap Economics and the Asset Stripping Blues, Part 1
pp. 769-796
Freedom Land: 2-Cent Freedomland Project featuring K. Gates, The Show, Young A, Dee 1, Mack Maine, Nutt tha Kid, and Dizzy
pp. 797-801
After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast Region
pp. 803-827
Refugee Bodily Orbits
pp. 829-830