Acknowledgments
Introduction: Katrina's Imprint by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd
Part One: The Tangled Logic of Vulnerability
1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice by Karen M. O'Neill
2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina by Mia Bay
3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America by Keith Wailoo
4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster by Roland Anglin
Part Two: Cultural and Psychic Legacies
5. Seeing Katrina's Dead by Ann Fabian
6. Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans by Richard Mizelle Jr.
7. Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina by Nancy Boyd-Franklin
8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience by Evie Shockley
Part Three: "Starting Over" in Post-Katrina America
9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary by Keith Wailoo and Jeffrey Dowd
10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina by John R. Aiello and Lyra Stein
11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters by William M. Rodgers III
12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality by Niki T. DIckerson
Part Four: Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth
13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency by David Dante Troutt
14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd
Notes on Contributors
Index