Seeking Higher Ground

Chapter 1 The New Orleans Mayoral Election: The Voting Rights Act and the Politics of Return and Rebuild

Chapter 2 The New Orleans That Race Built: Racism, Disaster, and Urban Spatial Relationships

Chapter 4 Property and Security, Political Chameleons, and Dysfunctional Regime: A New Orleans Story

Chapter 5 Hurricane Katrina as an Elaboration on an Ongoing Theme: Racialized Spaces in Louisiana

Chapter 6 An Interview with Judge Ivan L. R. Lemelle

Chapter 7 New Orleans’s African American Musical Traditions: The Spirit and Soul of a City

Chapter 8 Hero, Eulogist, Trickster, and Critic: Ritual and Crisis in Post-Katrina Mardi Gras

Chapter 9 (Re)Imagining Ethnicity in the City of New Orleans: Katrina’s Geographical Allegory

Chapter 10 The Rebuilding of a Tourist Industry: Immigrant Labor Exploitation in the Post-Katrina Reconstruction of New Orleans

Chapter 11 “Do you know What It Means … ?”: Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrina

Chapter 12 Witness: The Racialized Gender Implications of Katrina

Chapter 13 The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Race and Class Divide in America

Chapter 14 Katrina’s Southern “Exposure”: The Kanye Race Debate and the Repercussions of Discussion

Chapter 15 Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina

Chapter 16 What Happens When the Footprints Shrink: New Orleans and the End of Eminence

Chapter 17 “The City I Used to…Visit”: Tourist New Orleans and the Racialized Response to Hurricane Katrina

Chapter 18 The Social Construction of Disaster: New Orleans as the Paradigmatic American City

Chapter 19 Are they katrina’s kids or Ours? The Experience of Displaced New Orleans Students in Their New Schools and Communities

Chapter 20 Envisioning “Complete Recovery” as an Alternative to “Unmitigated Disaster”