Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Breaking the Covenant
• 2. Print Media
• 3. Arts and Popular Culture
• 4. Television Coverage
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Author and Series Editor
• Index

Promotional Information

"A fine piece of scholarship. It's clearly written and plainly argued, and it's based on a remarkably thorough research project that covers more media representations of Hurricane Katrina than I've seen analyzed in a single place. It engages important cultural questions as well as emerging themes about trauma and the impact of disasters." -- Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, and author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

About the Author

Ron Eyerman is a professor of sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His previous books include Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity and Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering.

Reviews

"The title of Mr. Eyerman’s book about Katrina — Is This America? — is a question many have been asking lately. It’s a telltale sign of collective trauma, a grasping for identity when the usual bases for community aren’t there anymore. If research on other collective traumas is any indication, it may take years, and a great deal of political imagination, for us to figure out where to go from here."
*The New York Times*