Hurricane Katrina: The Research

Perhaps no subject in hiphop has so captivated scholars, journalists and activists over the course of the past five years as profoundly as Hurricane Katrina. In the hiphop community, the term "Katrina" alone stands in as a proxy for complex and heated conversations on race, poverty, oppression, criminalization, conspiracies, politics, family, disaster, the south and the role of the state, among other items. The Gulf Coast has been home to well-known hiphop artists like: Lil' Wayne, Juvenile, Percy "Master P" Miller and more. The Gulf coast will likely remain as a critical site of hiphop research, scholarship and activism for years to come.

At the Hiphop Archive at Harvard University, we continue to collect, produce and catalogue any and all rigorous research materials, primary and secondary, pertaining to the intersection of hiphop and Hurricane Katrina. The resources across the country are vast and varied and span the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics, real estate, health sciences and so on. To aid our users and the scholarly community as a whole, we organize the research materials related to hiphop and Hurricane Katrina through the following sections:

  • Reports
  • Data
  • Periodicals & Newspapers
  • Documentaries & Films
  • Hiphop & Music

To the extent you have any materials you would like added and stored at the Hiphop Archive at Harvard University related to the above, please contact us at info@hiphoparchive.org; subject heading: Katrina Archive Materials to Contribute/ Suggest.

The Research

  • South End Press Collective.
    What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press Collective, 2007.
  • Andrews, Heather and Tameika Ashford.
    That Rough Beat, Its Hour Come Round at Last: A History of Hurrican Katrina. College Station, TX: The Texas Review Press, January 11, 2008.
  • Antoine, Rebeca and Fredrick Barton .
    Voices Rising : Stories From the Katrina Narrative Project. New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press, March 25, 2008.
  • Barbiere McGrath, Barbara.
    The Storm: Students of Biloxi, Mississippi, Remember Hurricane Katrina. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing, August 28, 2006.
  • Bills, James.
    Refuge of Last Resort: The True Hurricane Katrina Story. 2007.
  • Biquenet, John and Steven Maklansky, Tony Lewis.
    Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers' Visual Reactions to Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, LA: UNO Press, September 16, 2010.
  • Brinkley, Douglas.
    The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
  • Brunsma, David L. and David Overfelt, J. Steven Picou.
    The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007.
  • Bullard, Robert Doyle and Beverly Wright .
    Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina : Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, February 10, 2009.
  • Canney, Donald L.
    In Katrina's Wake : The U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005 (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology). Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, September 19, 2010.
  • Cooper, Christopher and Robert Block.
    Disaster : Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security. New York, NY: Holt Paperbacks, May 29, 2007.
  • Daniels, Ronald J. and Donald F. Kettl, Howard Kunreuther.
    On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
  • Dawson, Michael and Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Cathy Cohen.
    2005 Racial Attitudes and the Katrina Disaster Study. University of Chicago for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, January 2006.
  • Dawson, Michael.
    Katrina, Race & Poverty. Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, November 21, 2005.
  • Dean , Carl and Kimberly Rivers Roberts, Scott Roberts, Tia Lessin .
    Trouble the Water . New York: Zeitgeist Films, August 25, 2009.
  • Geographic, National .
    Inside Hurricane Katrina: The Commemorative Edition. National Geographic Video, August 17, 2010.
  • Hartman, Chester and Gregory D. Squires.
    There Is No Such Thing As A Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • Horne, Jed.
    Breach of Faith: Hurrican Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. New York: Random House, 2006.
  • Lee, Spike.
    When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts. HBO, 2006.
  • LeMay, Alex.
    Desert Bayou. 2007.
  • Levitt, Jeremy I. and Matthew C. Whitaker.
    Hurricane Katrina: America's Unnatural Disaster. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, April 1, 2009.
  • McAdam, Doug.
    Freedom Summer. New York: Oxford Press, 1988.
  • Montana-Leblanc, Phyllis and Spike Lee.
    Not Just the Levees Broke : My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina. Atria Publishing, August 11, 2009.
  • Neff, Thomas.
    Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, December 6, 2007.
  • NOVA.
    Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Drowned A City. PBS, 2006.
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