Thirty-six years before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans
and southern Mississippi, the region was visited by one of the most
powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States: Camille.
Mark M. Smith offers three highly original histories of the
storm's impact in southern Mississippi. In the first essay Smith
examines the sensory experience and impact of the hurricane--how
the storm rearranged and challenged residents' senses of smell,
sight, sound, touch, and taste. The second essay explains the way
key federal officials linked the question of hurricane relief and
the desegregation of Mississippi's public schools. Smith concludes
by considering the political economy of short- and long-term
disaster recovery, returning to issues of race and class.
"Camille, 1969" offers stories of survival and experience, of
the tenacity of social justice in the face of a natural disaster,
and of how recovery from Camille worked for some but did not work
for others. Throughout these essays are lessons about how we might
learn from the past in planning for recovery from natural disasters
in the future.
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