...Gaurav Desai © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Gaurav Desai Introduction Katrina, Ten Years Later Published almost a decade after one of the most devastating disasters...

...Stephen A. Nelson Although it has been nearly ten years since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, many misconceptions (myths) still surround the events that took place. Among these myths are that levees failed the day after Katrina made landfall, that the failed levees were on the Mississippi River...

...Raymond Taras Media narratives inscribe disasters with cultural meanings and politically consequential interpretations. Examining newspaper coverage in Mexico and Cuba of the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reveals (mis)perceptions of the role and effectiveness of government...

... cities. In the decade since Hurricane Katrina, debates about gentrification have emerged to frame nativity—rather than class—as the chief indicator of pernicious neighborhood change. Part memoir, part polemic, this essay seeks to unsettle and critique that framing. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 New...

...T. R. Johnson This essay narrates an experience of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans to reflect on jazz, blues, slavery, race, community, diaspora, memory, and gentrification. It contextualizes itself through details of a particular neighborhood in New Orleans...

...Marguerite Nguyen This article weaves together interviews, cultural studies scholarship, and a personal experience of New Orleans to interpret narratives of Vietnamese Americans in the city pre- and post-Katrina. New Orleans is home to one of the densest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans...

..., a city of risk —a neoliberal experiment at the scale of over three hundred thousand people. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 risk levees neoliberalism Katrina recovery Works Cited Beck Ulrich . 2000 . The Brave New World of Work . Translated by Camiller Patrick . Cambridge...

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...- ment of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University, where he teaches courses on natural disasters, hurricanes, mineralogy, and petrology, and has published scientific articles on Hurricane Katrina and on volcanism in Mexico. Marguerite Nguyen is assistant professor of English...

... and not waves like (waves) but waves like (pulls back durag) waves. Stick Tom Cotton in a white robe and put him at the top of Orthnac Tower his Saruman looking ass. Turn the Lonely Mountain Atlantan stone and toss Cuban links in its bowels and get all my niggas to survive Helm s Deep in ways we did not Katrina...

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... that such disaster can have on our cultural memory need look no further than the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on our sister libraries in the Gulf States. As an institution that has built these vast collections as a public good and in the public trust, joining the Google...

... in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a U.S. city that had been mysteriously abandoned by the forces of government to the forces of nature, its population decimated, the popular imagination engaged in racist fantasies about its inhabitants that prompt the armed officials moving into it to be trigger-happy...