Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, Editors

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Published: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, © 2009.

  

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Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Series Note: The New Public Scholarship
• Introduction — Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez
• Section 1
  • Coping with Disaster — Amy Koritz
  • “Bring Your Own Chairs”: Civic Engagement in Postdiluvial New Orleans — Richard Campanella
  • A Reciprocity of Tears: Community Engagement after a Disaster — Pat Evans and Sarah Lewis
  • Not Since the Great Depression: The Documentary Impulse Post-Katrina — Michael Mizell-Nelson
  • Another Evacuation Story — Rebecca Mark
• Section 2
  • New Beginnings — Amy Koritz
  • The Vision Has Its Time: Culture and Civic Engagement in Postdisaster New Orleans — Carol Bebelle
  • How to Raise an Army (of Creative Young People) — Mat Schwarzman, with illustrator Keith Knight
  • The Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps: The Story of a Local CBO’s Response to Restoring Youth Programs in New Orleans after Katrina and Rita — Kyshun Webster and D. Hamilton Simons-Jones
  • Welcoming the Newcomers: Civic Engagement among Pre-Katrina Latinos — Elizabeth Fussell
• Section 3
  • Interconnections — Amy Koritz
  • Cultural Policy and Living Culture in New Orleans after Katrina — Carole Rosenstein
  • HOME, New Orleans: University/Neighborhood Arts Collaborations — Jan Cohen-Cruz
  • Interview with Don Marshall Executive Director of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Foundation — Conducted by Amy Koritz
• Afterword
  • Civic Engagement Is a Language—What Can Universities Learn from Public Cultural Work in New Orleans? — Julie Ellison
• Contributors
• Index

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