Katrina's Imprint - Race and Vulnerability in America (Hardcover)

"Katrina's Imprint" highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster, explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of rebuilding and starting over replicates past vulnerabilities, and analyze Katrina's imprint alongside American's myths of self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have emerged in our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons that should be learned from Katrina.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	July 2010
Editors:	Keith Wailoo • Karen M. O'Neill • Jeffrey Dowd • Roland Anglin
Introduction by:	Keith Wailoo • Karen M. O'Neill • Jeffrey Dowd
Contributors:	John Aiello • Mia Bay • Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-4773-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General
LSN:	0-8135-4773-3
Barcode:	9780813547732

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