Seeking Higher Ground

Seeking Higher Ground: Race, Public Policy, and the Hurricane Katrina Crisis - Manning Marable PART I: POLITICS AND PLACE 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 - Osei Robertson Hurricane Katrina as Postscript to Racialized Spaces in Louisiana - Animashaun Ducre Interview: A Conversation with Judge Ivan L. R. Lemelle - Suzette Malveaux PART II: CULTURE, TRADITION, AND IDENTITY New Orleans' 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 K. Redwood PART III: RACE AND REPRESSION "Do You Know What It Means?:" Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of Katrina - Melissa Harris-Lacewell Witness: The Gendered Implications of Katrina - Kathleen A. Bergin The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Race and Class Divide in America - Thomas J. Durant, Jr.& Dawood Sultan Katrina's Southern "Exposure:" The Kanye Race Debate and the Repercussions of Discussion - Erica Czaja Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina - Alan H. Stein& Gene B. Preuss PART IV: REIMAGINING THE PAST AND RECONSTRUCTING THE FUTURE 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: