Rebuilding with Tools for Social Justice: Hurricane Katrina One Year Later
- Jones, Jeffrey. 2006. New Orleans R&B Star Begins Posthumous Mayoral Bid. Reuters.com, April 9. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1612506/posts
- Woods, Clyde. 2005. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues. American Quarterly 57(4): 1005-1018.
- Smith, John Maynard. 1998. The Origin of Altruism. Nature 393: 639–40.
- Branford Marsalis and father, Ellis Marsalis, Join Habitat for Humanity to Announce Musicians’ Village.2005. Habitat for Humanity, December 6. http://www.habitat.org/newsroom/2005archive/insitedoc011244.aspx
- Hebel, Sara. 2006. A facility manager digs out of the rubble. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01301.htm
- Jordan, Lara Jakes. 2006. White House report finds widespread failures during Hurricane Katrina. The San Diego Union Tribune, February 23. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/katrina/20060223-1555-katrina-washington.html
- Lipton, Eric. 2006. White House knew of levee’s failure on night of storm. The New York Times, February 10. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/politics/10katrina.html?ex=1297227600&en=01a0acbbed9d0a7e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
- Meserve, Jeanne and Mike Ahlers. 2006. Senators: ‘Bumbling’ FEMA must go. CNN.com, April 27. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/katrina.fema/index.html
Race, Class and Social Inequalities
- Jackson, Camille. 2005. Katrina: decoding the language of race and class. Tolerance.org, September 19. http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=1292
- Ross, Loretta J. 2005. A feminist perspective on Katrina. Sistersong, October 10. http://zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=8912§ionID=1
- Lauer, Nancy Cook. 2005. Rape-reporting procedure missing after hurricane. Womensenews.org, September 13. http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2448
Community Organizations Working towards Rebuilding
- Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR): Based in New Orleans, AEHR is a nonprofit, public interest law firm that works for the right of displaced residents to return to safe and healthy neighborhoods.
- Alive-in-Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History and Memory Project: This all-volunteer effort continues to collect oral histories and support displaced New Orleanians. The project has collected over 100 interviews that average one to two hours long. These interviews are posted on the Web site.
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN): Through the ACORN Katrina Survivors Association, ACORN works to gut, rebuild, and preserve homes for residents who have been displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
- Common Ground Collective: Common Ground is a community-based volunteer organization that provides assistance and relief for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters along the gulf coast, as well as support for rebuilding communities in the New Orleans area.
- In the Wake of the Hurricanes: A Coalition Effort to Collect Our Stories and Rebuild Our Culture:This collaboration comprises scholars and the public interested in documenting the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
- Peoples' Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition (PHRF):Located on the ground in New Orleans, PHRF works to build and maintain a coordinated network of community leaders, organizers and community based organizations with the capacity and organizational infrastructure that can help to meet the needs of people most impacted by Hurricane Katrina and government neglect.
- The Opportunity Agenda: An interdisciplinary organization based in New York City, the Opportunity Agenda developed tools to enhance the communications efforts of Katrina advocates and strengthen community rebuilding.
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC): A task force of sociologists charged with setting a collective agenda on rebuilding the Gulf Coast and strengthening the connections between disaster relief and other fields.
- The Urban Institute: This Web site provides a collection of readings on issues important to the rebuilding of New Orleans and the region and the role of nonprofits in dealing with those issues.
- After the Storm: Black intellectuals explore the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. David Troutt (ed.). New Press. 2006.
- Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American city. Jed Horne. Random House: New York. 2006.
- Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster. Michael Eric Dyson. Basic Civitas: Cambridge, MA. 2006.
- Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the failure of Homeland Security. Christopher Cooper and Robert Block. Times. 2006
- The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Douglas Brinkley. William Morrow: New York. 2006.
- Hurricane Katrina: Response and responsibilities. John Brown Childs (ed.). New Pacific Press: Santa Cruz: CA. 2006.
- Katrina's Legacy: White racism and Black reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Eric Mann. Frontlines. 2006.
- On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Ronald Daniels, Donald Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther (eds.). University of Philadelphia Press: Philadelphia. 2006.
- Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the coming age of superstorms. John McQuaid and Mark Scheifstein. Little Brown. 2006
- The Ravaging Tide: Strange weather, future Katrinas and the coming death of America's coastal cities. Mike Tidwell. Free Press. 2006.
- There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster. Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires (eds.). Routledge: New York. 2006.
- ‘Unacceptable’: The federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Walter M. Brasch. Booksurge Publishing: Charleston, SC. 2006.
- Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina. Besty Reed (ed.). Nation Books. 2006.
- The Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Multiple Disadvantages and Key Assets for Recovery. Part II. Gender, Race, and Class in the Labor Market. Erica Williams, Olga Sorokina, Avis Jones-DeWeever, and Heidi Hartmann. Institute for Women’s Policy Research: Washington, DC. 2006. http://www.iwpr.org
- Klein, Naomi. 2005. Let the people rebuild New Orleans. The Nation 281, no 1. http://www.thenation.com
- Cutter, Susan L., Christopher T. Emrich, Jerry T. Mitchell, Bryan J. Boruff, Melanie Gall, Mathew C. Schmidtlein, Christopher G. Burton, and Ginni Melton. 2006. The long road home. Environment 48 (2): 8-20.
- Gosselin, Peter. 2005. On their own in battered New Orleans. LA Times, April 10. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-orleansrisk4dec04,0,7970585,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
- Stouff, Roger. 2005. Forsaken. November 30. http://www.native-waters.com
- Eaton, Leslie. 2006. In storm’s aftermath, Catholics retrench. New York Times, February 10, Late edition.
- Farrell, Elizabeth F. 2006. A local student finds stability in college life. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01601.htm
- Hoover, Eric. 2006. A coach rebuilds. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01502.htm
- Hebel, Sara. 2006. A trauma expert helps a campus cope. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01602.htm
- Hebel, Sara. 2006. A community-college student learns to make repairs. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01402.htm
- Mangan, Katherine. 2006. A furloughed professor struggles to recover. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01201.htm
- Carnvevale, Dan. 2006. A professor, and his university, count on distance education. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01501.htm
- Guterman, Lila. 2006. A scientist finds his life changed. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i02/02a01401.htmWhoriskey, Peter. 2006. Katrina’s unclaimed to get hometown burial. Washington Post, February 11. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021001800.html
- Brown, Jenny. 2006. New Orleans’ grassroots struggle and rebuild. Common Ground, January. http://freenet6.afn.org/~iguana/archives/2006_01/20060101.html
Symposium Presenters Speak Out about Katrina's Aftershocks
- Iyer, Sangamithra. 2005. Going home: the Satya interview with Dr. Beverly Wright. Satya, November. http://www.satyamag.com/nov05/wright.html
- Nembhard, Jessica Gordon. 2006. Principles and strategies for reconstruction: Models of African American community-based cooperative economic development. Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy 12. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/HJAAP/06%20articles/gordon%20nembhard06.pdf
- Principles and priorities for rebuilding New Orleans: Joint statement by black social scientists. http://www.epinet.org/webfeatures/viewpoints/rebuilding_new_orleans-statement.pdf
- Walters, Ron. 2006. Mission not accomplished. TomPaine.com, August 24. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/24/mission_not_accomplished.php
- Infoshop.org. http://www.infoshop.org/hurricanekatrina.html
- U.S. Census Report. USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-07-neworleans_x.htm?csp=34
- U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Statistics. http://www.bls.gov/katrina/200609status.htm
- USA Today. http://www.freep.com/assets/static/pdf/2006/08/katrina0826.pdf
