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Katrina’s Imprint Rutgers Studies in Race and Ethnicity Controversies in race and ethnicity cannot be fully understood through a single analytical lens or disciplinary approach. Such issues require sustained, collabo- rative analysis—drawing on insights from law to history, from sociology to literature, from labor studies to anthropology, from political science to health- related scholarship, and from biology to cultural studies. Focusing primarily on edited volumes, the series aims to bring multiple theories, methods, and approaches to bear on how racial and ethnic politics, identity, culture, struc- tures, and social relations function in the modern world. Through innovative critical commentary and sustained policy engagement, this series encourages scholarship aimed at expanding and deepening the study of these issues in the United States and around the globe. Organized by the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity, the series is an outgrowth of the breadth, depth, and strength of the field at the University and is committed to new collaborative scholarship that bridges boundaries. Readers will find a deep and expansive understanding of the intricate and often unrecognized ways in which race and ethnicity shapes and is shaped by modern societies. Series Editors: Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O’Neill, Mia Bay, and Lisa Miller Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O’Neill, Jeffrey Dowd, and Roland Anglin, eds., Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America VVVVVVVVVVV Katrina’s Imprint Race and Vulnerability in America EDITED BY KEITH WAILOO KAREN M. O’NEILL JEFFREY DOWD ROLAND ANGLIN VVVVVVVVVVV RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Katrina’s imprint : race and vulnerability in America / edited by Keith Wailoo ... [et al.]. p. cm. — (Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–4773–2(hbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–8135–4774–9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Hurricane Katrina, 2005—Social aspects. 2. Disaster relief—Social aspects—Louisiana—New Orleans. 3. Disaster relief—Social aspects—Gulf States. 4. United States—Social conditions—21st century. I. Wailoo, Keith. HV6362005.N4K382010 976'.044—dc22 2009038466 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2010by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Individual chapters copyright © 2010in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Katrina’s Imprint 1 KEITH WAILOO, KAREN M. O’NEILL, AND JEFFREY DOWD PART ONE The Tangled Logic of Vulnerability 1 Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice 9 KAREN M. O’NEILL 2 Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina 21 MIA BAY 3 A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America 34 KEITH WAILOO 4 The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster 45 ROLAND ANGLIN PART TWO Cultural and Psychic Legacies 5 Seeing Katrina’s Dead 59 ANN FABIAN v vi CONTENTS 6 Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans 69 RICHARD MIZELLE JR. 7 Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina 78 NANCY BOYD-FRANKLIN 8 The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience 95 EVIE SHOCKLEY PART THREE “Starting Over” in Post-Katrina America 9 Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005Disaster Commentary 117 KEITH WAILOO AND JEFFREY DOWD 10 Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina 135 JOHN R. AIELLO AND LYRA STEIN 11 The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters 154 WILLIAM M. RODGERS III 12 The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality 169 NIKI T. DICKERSON PART FOUR Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth 13 Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency 183 DAVID DANTE TROUTT 14 Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery 192 KEITH WAILOO, KAREN M. O’NEILL, AND JEFFREY DOWD Notes on Contributors 197 Index 201 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project—an analysis of the enduring significance of Katrina in American society—originated in a May 2006 conference organized by the then newly created Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Participants in that conference included the authors in this volume as well as many others. The conference presentations of Donna Murch, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Alison Isenberg, Minkah Makalani, James K. Mitchell, and Nancy Sinkoff helped demonstrate the benefits of the multidisciplinary approach of this volume. Among the authors in this volume, we especially thank Richard Mizelle, who, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Race and Ethnicity, taught a multidisciplinary course on Katrina that involved several of the authors in this volume and provided an exciting forum to continue the investi- gation that had begun in May 2006. As well, we thank Maureen Dekaser and Mia Kissil for assistance with organizing the conferences and the course that gave rise to this volume. Mia Bay also warrants special thanks for her essential part in organizing this project and planning this book. Several graduate students assisted with research. We would like to recognize and thank Daniel Wherley, who carried out a great deal of research for several of the authors, as well as Rebecca Scales, Marc Matera, and Joseph Gabriel. Several other gradu- ate students played a major role in editing, commenting, and assisting with revisions. In particular, we thank Shakti Jaising for her extraordinarily insight- ful contribution as copy editor, Anantha Sudhakar, Fatimah Williams-Castro, Isra Ali, Dana Brown, Bridget Gurtler, Dora Vargha, Melissa Stein, and Nadia Brown. Jeffrey Dowd began as a graduate assistant and copy editor, and as his involvement with the essays and the volume expanded, he became a coeditor and coauthor. We are especially indebted to Jeff for his work in this regard. We would also like to thank Leslie Mitchner, editor-in-chief at Rutgers University Press, for her insights and suggestions on particular essays as well as on the overall structure of the book. Finally, this project would not have been possible without strong support for the Center for Race and Ethnicity by Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Philip Furmanski. vii Katrina’s Imprint
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