In addition to the many trade titles about Hurricane Katrina, several university presses are publishing books on the subject this year.

University of Texas Press is releasing four titles in its Katrina Bookshelf series in September:

Is This America?: Katrina as Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman Peek

Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina by Katherine E. Browne

Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods by Steve Kroll-Smith and Vern Baxter Peek

Children of Katrina by Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek

Other university press titles on Katrina include the following:

America’s Great Storm: Leading Through Hurricane Katrina by Haley Barbour, with Jere Nash (Univ. of Mississippi, Aug.)

Reforming New Orleans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy by Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas (Cornell Univ., Nov.)

Rebuilding Community After Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative edited by Ken Reardon and John Forester (Temple Univ., Nov.)

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