Overview
Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation's long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others explore how reaction to the hurricane's aftermath is rooted in the region's history. Uniquely combining humanities and social sciences research, the contributors reevaluate the political, social, and economic dynamics that existed before this ""natural"" disaster and the subsequent responses and actions, or lack thereof. Investigations of public policies, organizations, social movements, and neoliberalism range from a traditional policy case study of the often-neglected Alabama and Mississippi experience to an analysis of urban social movements in New Orleans to a broad critique of local policy that has global implications. Innovative young scholars provide essays on music, literature, tourism, and gender. Interviews with key community leaders and historic poets round out the volume. The many social, political, racial, economic, and personal disasters that followed Katrina produced intellectual dilemmas. How could this happen in the wealthiest nation in the world? How could the U.S. government so callously abandon its citizens when they so desperately needed federal aid? Why was the most powerful military in the world unable or unwilling to act? Readers will find in this collection compelling answers to these, and other, complicated questions.
Full Product Details
Author: Clyde Woods (Associate Professor, University of California–Santa Barbara)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780801895616
ISBN 10: 0801895618
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 30 August 2010
Recommended Age: From 13
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
A wide-ranging, powerful survey of the many forces affecting the Katrina decisions. Midwest Book Review
A wide-ranging, powerful survey of the many forces affecting the Katrina decisions. Midwest Book Review 2011
Author Information
Clyde Woods is an associate professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Development Arrested: Race, Power, and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta and the coeditor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.
