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American Quarterly

Founded in 1949, American Quarterly is the journal of the American Studies Association. American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American studies.  The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts.  This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture.  Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American studies. American Quarterly is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December.  It is available online to ASA members and through Project Muse and JSTOR.

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September 2009, Special Issue, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions, Volume 61, Number 3,

Preface

What is a Disaster?
Curtis Marez

Introduction

Katrina’s World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source
Clyde Woods

Histories of Race, Gender, Sex, and Class

“More desultory and unconnected than any other”: Geography, Desire, and Freedom in Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life
Lisa Ze Winters

“Justice Mocked”: Violence and Accountability in New Orleans
LaKisha Michelle Simmons

Activists and Institutions

Beyond Disaster Exceptionalism: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
Rachael Luft

Stories at the Center: Story Circles, Educational Organizing, and Fate of Neighborhood Public Schools in New Orleans
Catherine Michna

Of Armed Guards and Kente Cloth
Trushna Parekh

The Politics of Reproductive Violence
An Interview with Shana Griffin by Clyde Woods, March 12, 2009
Culture, Music, and Performance

Jazz and Revival
Eric Porter

Second Lining Post-Katrina: Learning Community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid
and Pleasure Club
Joel Dinerstein

Upholding Community Traditions
An Interview with Cherice Harrison-Nelson by Clyde Woods, March 1, 2009

On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing
Johari Jabir

“My FEMA People”: Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora
Zenia Kish

“We Know This Place”: Neoliberal Racial Regimes and the Katrina Circumstance
Jordan T. Camp

We Know this Place
Sunni Patterson

Tourism Industrial Complex

Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
Anna Hartnell

“Roots Run Deep Here”: The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina
Tourism Narratives
Lynnell L. Thomas

Geographies of Disaster

Les Misérables of New Orleans: Trap Economics and the Asset Stripping Blues, Part 1
Clyde Woods

Freedom Land
2-Cent Freedomland Project

After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast Region
Jeffrey S. Lowe and Todd C. Shaw

Refugee Bodily Orbits
Long T. Bui

Other Issues

June 2010, Volume 62, Number 2,
March 2010, Volume 62, Number 1,
December 2009, Volume 61, Number 4
June 2009, Volume 61, Number 2
March 2009, Volume 61, Number 1
December 2008, Volume 60, Number 4
June 2008, Volume 60, Number 2
December 2007, Volume 59, Number 4
Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States, Volume 59, Number 3
Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders , Vol. 57, No. 3
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures,
March 2006, Volume 58, Number 1