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Introduction -- Seeking higher ground : race, public policy and the Hurricane Katrina crisis / Manning Marable -- 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-Avery -- Property and security, political chameleons, and dysfunctional regime : a New Orleans story / Osei Robertson -- Hurricane Katrina as postscript to racialized spaces in Louisiana / K. Animashaun Ducre -- Interview: a conversation with Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle / Suzette Malveaux -- 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 -- 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. and 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 and Gene B. Preuss -- 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 : New Orleans as the paradigmatic American city / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires -- Are they Katrina's kids or ours? : the experience of displaced New Orleans students in their new schools and communities / Kevin Michael Foster -- Envisioning "complete recovery" as an alternative to "unmitigated disaster" / Mindy Thompson Fullilove et al

A great ambition -- The ivory tower of race -- Tuskegee and the Niagara Movement : from scholar to activist -- The crisis and the NAACP : social reform in the progressive era -- Pan-Africanism, socialism, and Garveyism -- The new Negro -- The great depression and world war -- The politics of peace -- Stern prophet, flaming angel -- Chronology.

The recent human tragedy in New Orleans created by Hurricane Katrina has generated an interesting and important debate about the underlying causes of black suffering and oppression. In its most simple form, the question being debated is whether race and racism were most responsible for the Katrina crisis that disrupted the lives of hundreds of thousands of African Americans, or whether class and poverty were relatively more significant in explaining this human catastrophe.