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Katrina Seven Years On: The Politics of Race and Recovery— Notes on a Roundtable Organized for the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2013

Christine L. Day*
Affiliation:
University of New Orleans

Abstract

After Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, flooding the city of New Orleans for several weeks after levees collapsed, the city struggled to recover and rebuild. Scholars and activists participating in the roundtable, “Katrina Seven Years On: The Politics of Race and Recovery,” at the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, were to discuss recovery and racial justice in post-Katrina urban planning and rebuilding efforts, grassroots movements, job recovery, fair housing, and cultural revival. Although the 2012 meeting was canceled as Hurricane Isaac threatened New Orleans anew, panelists offered their observations and ideas to be summarized for PS readers.

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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013 

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