Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Romain Huret -- "Two Centuries of Paradox" The Geography of New Orleans's African American Population, from Antebellum to Postdiluvian Times Richard Campanella -- Explaining the Unexplainable Hurricane Katrina, FEMA, and the Bush Administration Romain Huret -- Picturing the Catastrophe News Photographs in the First Weeks after Katrina Jean Kempf -- "Wilt Thou Judge the Bloody City? Yea, Thou Shalt Show Her All Her Abominations" Hurricane Katrina as a Providential Catastrophe James Boyden -- Naturalizing Disaster Neoliberalism, Cultural Racism, and Depoliticization in the Era of Katrina Andrew Diamond -- Reformers, Preservationists, Patients, and Planners Embodied Histories and Charitable Populism in the Post-Disaster Controversy over a Public Hospital Anne M. Lovell -- The Political Economy of Invisibility in Twenty-First-Century New Orleans Security, Hospitality, and the Post-Disaster City Thomas Jessen Adams -- Faith, Hip-Hop, and Charity Brass-Band Morphology in Post-Katrina New Orleans Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Memory Lives in New Orleans The Process and Politics of Commemoration Sara Le Menestrel -- Why Mardi Gras Matters Randy J. Sparks -- Contributors.