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After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century
Contributor(s): Hartnell, Anna (Author)

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 ISBN: 1438464185     ISBN-13: 9781438464183
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
- Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
Dewey: 306.097
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.90 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Geographic Orientation - Louisiana
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana
- Cultural Region - South
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Through the lens provided by the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, After Katrina argues that the city of New Orleans emerges as a key site for exploring competing narratives of US decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Deploying an interdisciplinary approach to explore cultural representations of the post-storm city, Anna Hartnell suggests that New Orleans has been reimagined as a laboratory for a racialized neoliberalism, and as such might be seen as a terminus of the American dream. This US disaster zone has unveiled a network of social and environmental crises that demonstrate that prospects of social mobility have dwindled as environmental degradation and coastal erosion emerge as major threats not just to the quality of life but to the possibility of life in coastal communities across America and the world. And yet After Katrina also suggests that New Orleans culture offers a way of thinking about the United States in terms that transcend the binary of national renewal or declension. The post-Hurricane city thus emerges as a flashpoint for reflecting on the contemporary United States.
 
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