Katrina's Imprint

KEITH WAILOO is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, and the author and editor of several books, among them Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health. KAREN M. O'NEILL is a sociologist and associate professor of human ecology at Rutgers University, and the author of Rivers by Design: State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control. JEFFREY DOWD is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at Rutgers University.ROLAND V. ANGLIN is the director of the Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation (IRCT) at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University.

"This book is the best treatment we have of the American catastrophe called Katrina. These sophisticated views and powerful voices constitute the most formidable challenge to each of us in regards to race and justice!" - Cornel West (Princeton University) "The intent [of Katrina's Imprint] is to reveal the human consequences of the city's devastation and to offer a moral perspective on what has been viewed too often as a failure of government, a 'natural' breakdown of technological systems. This volume reminds us of the persistence of racial divisions in American society and the many ways that African Americans are vulnerable to harm. Recommended." (Choice) "Katrina's Imprint is a unique book that makes critical contributions to our understanding not only of the event itself but also of the ongoing production of social inequalities in our society as a whole. The strong blend of empirically-based social science and textual and cultural analyses of Katrina's Imprint leads to a holistic understanding of the ways that structural inequalities are reproduces, but also resisted and challenged."(Contemporary Sociology) "Katrina's Imprint provides some of the most valuable scholarly insights yet published regarding the 2005 disaster. It serves as an exemplary record of interdisciplinary scholars whose research illuminates Katrina's larger lessons."(Journal of Southern History) "With skilled use of primary and secondary sources, Katrina's Imprint effectively shakes us out of our 'blissful ignorance' and fulfills its stated aim to broaden and deepen our understanding of Katrina. Katrina's Imprint is important reading."(Journal of African American History)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Katrina's Imprint by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey DowdPart One: The Tangled Logic of Vulnerability1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice by Karen M. O'Neill2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina by Mia Bay3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America by Keith Wailoo4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster by Roland AnglinPart Two: Cultural and Psychic Legacies5. Seeing Katrina's Dead by Ann Fabian6. 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-Franklin8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience by Evie ShockleyPart Three: "Starting Over" in Post-Katrina America9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary by Keith Wailoo and Jeffrey Dowd10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina by John R. Aiello and Lyra Stein11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters by William M. Rodgers III12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality by Niki T. DIckersonPart Four: Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency by David Dante Troutt14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey DowdNotes on ContributorsIndex