RON EYERMANis a professor of sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His previous books include Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity and Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering.

"The title of Mr. Eyerman's book about Katrina — Is This America? — is a question many have been asking lately. It's a telltale sign of collective trauma, a grasping for identity when the usual bases for community aren't there anymore. If research on other collective traumas is any indication, it may take years, and a great deal of political imagination, for us to figure out where to go from here." (The New York Times)

• Acknowledgments1. Breaking the Covenant2. Print Media3. Arts and Popular Culture4. Television CoverageConclusionNotesBibliographyAbout the Author and Series EditorIndex

RON EYERMANis a professor of sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His previous books include Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity and Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering.

"The title of Mr. Eyerman's book about Katrina — Is This America? — is a question many have been asking lately. It's a telltale sign of collective trauma, a grasping for identity when the usual bases for community aren't there anymore. If research on other collective traumas is any indication, it may take years, and a great deal of political imagination, for us to figure out where to go from here." (The New York Times)

• Acknowledgments1. Breaking the Covenant2. Print Media3. Arts and Popular Culture4. Television CoverageConclusionNotesBibliographyAbout the Author and Series EditorIndex

RON EYERMANis a professor of sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His previous books include Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity and Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering.

"The title of Mr. Eyerman's book about Katrina — Is This America? — is a question many have been asking lately. It's a telltale sign of collective trauma, a grasping for identity when the usual bases for community aren't there anymore. If research on other collective traumas is any indication, it may take years, and a great deal of political imagination, for us to figure out where to go from here." (The New York Times)

• Acknowledgments1. Breaking the Covenant2. Print Media3. Arts and Popular Culture4. Television CoverageConclusionNotesBibliographyAbout the Author and Series EditorIndex