{"id":57034,"date":"2016-08-29T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57034"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:14:59","slug":"from-our-archives-on-the-anniversary-of-hurricane-katrina-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/08\/29\/from-our-archives-on-the-anniversary-of-hurricane-katrina-4\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Archives: Hurricane Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, all of Louisiana is reeling from this month&#8217;s floods. A third of the state has been declared a disaster area. Here in New Orleans we were spared, but we are opening our hearts, pocketbooks, and homes to our neighbors. It is in\u00a0this time of crisis that\u00a0we remember\u00a0the day that Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and side-swiped New Orleans, breaching and breaking the levees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was Hurricane Katrina a \u201cNatural\u201d Disaster?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/28\/profits-over-people-the-human-cause-of-the-katrina-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Profits Over People: The Human Cause of the Katrina Disaster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/27\/an-iconic-image-of-government-failure-courtesy-of-hurricane-katrina\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Iconic Image of Government Failure: Empty, Flooded School Buses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Racism and Neglect<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/28\/guest-post-racial-violence-in-the-aftermath-of-katrina\/\" target=\"_self\">Racial Violence in Algiers Point<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/08\/30\/another-look-at-racial-violence-after-katrina\/\" target=\"_blank\">African-American Men and Fear of Violence in the Aftermath<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/29\/hurricane-katrina-and-the-demographics-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Katrina and the Demographics of Death<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/27\/imprisoned-disaster-political-will-and-hurricane-katrina\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fate of Prisoners During Hurricane Katrina<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Disaster and Discourse<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/08\/28\/racism-in-the-aftermath-of-hurricane-katrina\/\" target=\"_self\">\u201cFinders\u201d vs \u201cLooters\u201d at the Associated Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/28\/disaster-tourism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Disaster Tourism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/07\/the-politics-of-hurricane-humor\/\" target=\"_self\">The Politics of Hurricane Humor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Devastation and Rebuilding<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/28\/hurricane-katrina-and-the-gulf-coast\/\" target=\"_self\">Slow Recovery on the Gulf Coast<\/a>\u00a0(pre-oil spill)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/29\/new-orleans-population-recovery-five-years-post-katrina\/\" target=\"_self\">Population Recovery in New Orleans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/29\/recovery-of-the-lower-9th-ward\/\" target=\"_self\">Rebuilding in the Lower 9th Ward<\/a>\u00a0(pictured)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, all of Louisiana is reeling from this month&#8217;s floods. A third of the state has been declared a disaster area. Here in New Orleans we were spared, but we are opening our hearts, pocketbooks, and homes to our neighbors. It is in\u00a0this time of crisis that\u00a0we remember\u00a0the day that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":57036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_31.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57034"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69315,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57034\/revisions\/69315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}