After the Storm: Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America

by Lori Latrice Martin (Editor), Hayward Derrick Horton (Editor), Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner Ph.D. (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the state of race relations in America 10 years after one of the worst natural disasters in American history, Hurricane Katrina, and looks at the socioeconomic consequences of decades of public and private practices brought to light by the storm in cities throughout the Gulf Coast as well as in America more broadly.

More than a decade ago, Hurricane Katrina served to expose a well-engineered system of oppression, one which continues to privilege some groups and disadvantage others. In the wake of the natural disaster that hit New Orleans, it became clear that institutions such as residential segregation, mass incarceration and unemployment, police brutality, political disenfranchisement, racial profiling, gentrification, community occupation, discrimination, and a prison-to-school pipeline are expressly intended to work against people of color and individuals from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Unfortunately, very little has improved in the lives of people living in majority-minority communities since Katrina.

After the Storm uses Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of the natural disaster as a point of departure for understanding enduring racial divides in asset ownership, academic achievement, educational attainment, and mass incarceration in New Orleans and beyond. The book explores the many specific aspects of the widespread problem and considers how to move toward achieving a state where all can thrive. Readers will better appreciate the key roles of race, inequality, education, occupation, and militarization in understanding the failures in the responses to this disaster and grasp how institutionalized inequity continues to plague our nation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440851643
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/20/2016
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lori Latrice Martin, PhD, is associate professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Louisiana State University.

Hayward Derrick Horton, PhD, is professor of sociology at University at Albany, State University of New York.

Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, PhD, is Shirley B. Barton Endowed Associate Professor in the College of Human Sciences and Education at Louisiana State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction Lori Latrice Martin xi

Chapter 1 A Tale of Two Cities: Race and Wealth Inequality in the New South Lori Latrice Martin Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner Melinda Jackson 1

Chapter 2 Accelerated Categorical Inequality: New Orleans in the Eye of the Storm Geoffrey L. Wood 19

Chapter 3 Loaded-God Complex: Engaging Educational and Penal Realism in Post-Katrina Times Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner 33

Chapter 4 What Do You Know about My Black Son? A Counternarrative That Challenges the Deficit Perspective Traci P. Baxley 41

Chapter 5 Three Louisiana Floods: Cases of Genocide? Teresa A. Booker 59

Chapter 6 Can You Hear Me Now? Race, Call-ins, and the Myth of Public Accountability Lori Latrice Martin Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner 69

Chapter 7 The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Black Women; Understanding Women's Fear through an Intersectional Lens Melinda Jackson Castel Sweet Dan Green 73

Chapter 8 Hand Over Minority Economies (H.O.M.E.): Examining the Persistent Waves of Divesting, Dismantling, and Devaluing of Black Bodies in America Tifanie Pulley Lori Lattice Martin 87

Chapter 9 Giving Students Voice: Book Dealing and Discussions That Build a Broken Community Susan Densmore-James 99

Chapter 10 Triple Threat: Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America Lori Latrice Martin 117

Bibliography 143

Index 157

About the Editors and Contributors 163