Seeking higher ground: the Hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader

Introduction: Seeking higher ground : race, public policy and the Hurricane Katrina crisis / Manning Marable

The New Orleans mayoral election : the Voting Rights Act and the politics of return and rebuild / Ronald Walters

The New Orleans that race built : racism, disaster, and urban spatial relationships / Darwin Bond Graham

Race-ing the post-Katrina political landscape : an analysis of the 2006 New Orleans election / Kristen Clarke

Property and security, political chameleons, and dysfunctional regime : a New Orleans story / D. Osei Robertson

Hurricane Katrina as an elaboration on an ongoing theme : racialized spaces in Louisiana / K. Animashaun Ducre

An interview with Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle / Suzette M. Malveaux

New Orleans's African American musical traditions : the spirit and soul of a city / Michael White

Hero, eulogist, trickster, and critic : ritual and crisis in post-Katrina Mardi Gras / Chelsey Louise Kivland

(Re)imagining ethnicity in the city of New Orleans : Katrina's geographical allegory / Stephanie Houston Grey

The rebuilding of a tourist industry : immigrant labor exploitation in the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans / Loren Redwood

"Do you know what it means

?" : mapping emotion in the aftermath of Katrina / Melissa Harris-Lacewell

Witness: the racialized gender implications of Katrina / Kathleen A. Bergin

The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the race and class divide in America / Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and Dawood Sultan

Katrina's southern "exposure" : the Kanye race debate and the repercussions of discussion / Erica M. Czaja

Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss

What happens when the footprints shrink : New Orleans and the end of eminence / Julianne Malveaux

"The city I used to

visit" : tourist New Orleans and the racialized response to Hurricane Katrina / Lynell Thomas

The social construction of disaster : New Orleans as the paradigmatic American city / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires

Are they Katrina's kids or ours? the experience of displaced New Orleans students in their new schools and communities / Kevin Michael Foster

Envisioning "complete recovery" as an alternative to "unmitigated disaster" / Mindy Thompson Fullilove, et al.