دانلود کتاب After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Is This America?”
New Orleans and the Death Drive
On Ruins, Redemption, and a Post-American World
Overview
Part I: American Time
1. New Orleans and Empire: Legacies from the “Age of Revolution”
Bounding Empire: “Homeland” and the Transnational Prison-Industrial Complex
New Orleans, 2005; Port-au-Prince, 2010
Writing Revolution
Conclusion: A Caribbean City?
2. New Orleans and Americanization: “Progress,” “Decline,” and Tourism in the Twentieth Century
From Nouvelle Orleans to “The City that Care Forgot”
“America’s Most Romantic City”: Selling Slavery, Erasing Race
“Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?”: Tourism and Culture after Katrina
Conclusion: Walking in New Orleans
Part II: Katrina Time
3. Documenting Katrina: The Return of the “Real”
“Not as Seen on TV”
Trouble the Water as “Cruel Optimism”
Land of Opportunity and the “Affect Economy”
Conclusion: Documenting Katrina Time
4. Resisting Katrina: The Right to Return
Right to Housing
Right to Education
Right to the City
Conclusion: Public Time
Part III: New Orleans Time
5. New Orleans and Water: Remapping Ecologies of the Gulf South
Conquering Water: The Struggle for New Orleans
Conceding to Water: The Struggle for the Lower Ninth Ward
Between Land and Water: Louisiana’s Retreating Frontier
Conclusion: Slow Time?
6. New Orleans and the Nation: Legacies from the Future
Dead Cities
The Exceptional City
The Liquid City
Conclusion: Beyond America
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index