In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions

Now available from The Johns Hopkins University Press is In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions.

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In the Wake of Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions
Edited by Clyde Woods

Preface

What is a Disaster?
Curtis Marez

Introduction

Katrina’s World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source
Clyde Woods

Histories of Race, Gender, Sex, and Class

“More desultory and unconnected than any other”: Geography, Desire, and Freedom in Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life
Lisa Ze Winters

“Justice Mocked”: Violence and Accountability in New Orleans
LaKisha Michelle Simmons

Activists and Institutions

Beyond Disaster Exceptionalism: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
Rachael Luft

Stories at the Center: Story Circles, Educational Organizing, and Fate of Neighborhood Public Schools in New Orleans
Catherine Michna

Of Armed Guards and Kente Cloth
Trushna Parekh

The Politics of Reproductive Violence
An Interview with Shana Griffin by Clyde Woods, March 12, 2009
Culture, Music, and Performance

Jazz and Revival
Eric Porter

Second Lining Post-Katrina: Learning Community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid
and Pleasure Club
Joel Dinerstein

Upholding Community Traditions
An Interview with Cherice Harrison-Nelson by Clyde Woods, March 1, 2009

On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing
Johari Jabir

“My FEMA People”: Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora
Zenia Kish

“We Know This Place”: Neoliberal Racial Regimes and the Katrina Circumstance
Jordan T. Camp

We Know this Place
Sunni Patterson

Tourism Industrial Complex

Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
Anna Hartnell

“Roots Run Deep Here”: The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina
Tourism Narratives
Lynnell L. Thomas

Geographies of Disaster

Les Misérables of New Orleans: Trap Economics and the Asset Stripping Blues, Part 1
Clyde Woods

Freedom Land
2-Cent Freedomland Project

After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast Region
Jeffrey S. Lowe and Todd C. Shaw

Refugee Bodily Orbits
Long T. Bui

Nation and Migration: Past and Future

Now available from The Johns Hopkins University Press is Nation and Migration: Past and Future.

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Nation and Migration: Past and Future
American Quarterly
Special Issue
September 2008

Preface
Curtis Marez

Introduction: Nation and Migration
David G. Gutiérrez and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Citizenship and State Power

The Deportation Terror
Rachel Ida Buff

Immigration Enforcement and the Complication of National Sovereignty: Understanding Local Enforcement as an Exercise in Neoliberal Governance
Philip Kretsedemas

“Citizenship Matters”: Lessons from the Irish Citizenship Referendum
J. M. Mancini and Graham Finlay
pp. 575-599

New Americans or Diasporic Nationalists?: Mexican Migrant Responses to Naturalization and Implications for Political Participation
Adrián Félix

Transnationalism

Transnationalism: A Category of Analysis
Laura Briggs, Gladys McCormick, and J. T. Way

“The Birth of a European Public”: Migration, Postnationality, and Race in the Uniting of Europe
Fatima El-Tayeb

Enforcing Transnational White Solidarity: Asian Migration and the Formation of the U.S.-Canadian Boundary
Kornel Chang

Migrant Experiences

Flexible Citizenship/Flexible Empire: South Asian Muslim Youth in Post-9/11 America
Sunaina Maira

Beyond Mexico: Guadalupan Sacred Space Production and Mobilization in a Chicago Suburb
Elaine Peña

Mexican Nationalisms, Southern Racisms: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1908–1939
Julie M. Weise

Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882–2007
Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Writing Migration

“World-Menace”: National Reproduction and Public Health in Katherine Mayo’s Mother India
Asha Nadkarni

Re-Producing a Nationalist Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reading (Im)migration in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Sarika Chandra

Event Review

Police Riot on the Net: Between “Web 2.0” and Comunicación Popular
Sasha Costanza-Chock