Cedric Johnson is associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Minnesota, 2007).

"This is a very important volume that all people interested in the Katrina disaster, governance, and American politics should read. In this book, Cedric Johnson and the other contributors reframe our understanding of the disaster by highlighting the role of neoliberalism in shaping both the preconditions for and response to this crisis. Those who read this book will come away with deeper knowledge of the meaning and work of neoliberalism over the last quarter century." -Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago

• ContentsPreface: “Obama’s Katrina”Cedric JohnsonIntroduction: The Neoliberal DelugeCedric JohnsonPart I. Governance1. From Tipping Point to Metacrises: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina Chris Russill and Chad Lavin2. “We Are Seeing People We Didn’t Know Exist”: Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of RaceEric Ishiwata3. Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-GovernanceGeoffrey Whitehall and Cedric JohnsonPart II. Urbanity4. Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New OrleansPaul Passavant5. Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter SchoolsAdrienne Dixson6. Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Public Housing MovementJohn ArenaPart III. Planning7. Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt’s Make It Right FoundationCedric Johnson8. Laboratorization and the “Green” Rebuilding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth WardBarbara L. Allen9. Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-Tsunami Sri LankaKanchana RuwanpuraPart IV. Inequality10. How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest FloodsLinda Robertson11. The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of KatrinaAvis Jones-Deweever12. Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New OrleansNicole Trujillo-PagÁnContributorsIndex

Cedric Johnson is associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Minnesota, 2007).

"This is a very important volume that all people interested in the Katrina disaster, governance, and American politics should read. In this book, Cedric Johnson and the other contributors reframe our understanding of the disaster by highlighting the role of neoliberalism in shaping both the preconditions for and response to this crisis. Those who read this book will come away with deeper knowledge of the meaning and work of neoliberalism over the last quarter century." -Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago

• ContentsPreface: “Obama’s Katrina”Cedric JohnsonIntroduction: The Neoliberal DelugeCedric JohnsonPart I. Governance1. From Tipping Point to Metacrises: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina Chris Russill and Chad Lavin2. “We Are Seeing People We Didn’t Know Exist”: Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of RaceEric Ishiwata3. Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-GovernanceGeoffrey Whitehall and Cedric JohnsonPart II. Urbanity4. Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New OrleansPaul Passavant5. Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter SchoolsAdrienne Dixson6. Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Public Housing MovementJohn ArenaPart III. Planning7. Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt’s Make It Right FoundationCedric Johnson8. Laboratorization and the “Green” Rebuilding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth WardBarbara L. Allen9. Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-Tsunami Sri LankaKanchana RuwanpuraPart IV. Inequality10. How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest FloodsLinda Robertson11. The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of KatrinaAvis Jones-Deweever12. Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New OrleansNicole Trujillo-PagÁnContributorsIndex

Cedric Johnson is associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics (Minnesota, 2007).

"This is a very important volume that all people interested in the Katrina disaster, governance, and American politics should read. In this book, Cedric Johnson and the other contributors reframe our understanding of the disaster by highlighting the role of neoliberalism in shaping both the preconditions for and response to this crisis. Those who read this book will come away with deeper knowledge of the meaning and work of neoliberalism over the last quarter century." -Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago

• ContentsPreface: “Obama’s Katrina”Cedric JohnsonIntroduction: The Neoliberal DelugeCedric JohnsonPart I. Governance1. From Tipping Point to Metacrises: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina Chris Russill and Chad Lavin2. “We Are Seeing People We Didn’t Know Exist”: Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of RaceEric Ishiwata3. Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-GovernanceGeoffrey Whitehall and Cedric JohnsonPart II. Urbanity4. Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New OrleansPaul Passavant5. Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter SchoolsAdrienne Dixson6. Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Public Housing MovementJohn ArenaPart III. Planning7. Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt’s Make It Right FoundationCedric Johnson8. Laboratorization and the “Green” Rebuilding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth WardBarbara L. Allen9. Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-Tsunami Sri LankaKanchana RuwanpuraPart IV. Inequality10. How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest FloodsLinda Robertson11. The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of KatrinaAvis Jones-Deweever12. Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New OrleansNicole Trujillo-PagÁnContributorsIndex