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KATRINA:  \nDISCURSIVE AMBIVALENCE IN COVERAGE OF HURRICANE KATRINA  \nAimee Berger and Kate Cochran  \n_______________________  \nNote: This essay derives from our panel at the 2007 CEA Conference in New Orleans. The purpose of the panel was to analyze the discourse surrounding Hurricane Katrina, interrogating the rhetorical operations that foregrounded some aspects of the tragedies involved, pulling in old stereotypes to take the place of concrete material analysis and relying on a dialectic of hypervisibility (New Orleans) and invisibility (other affected populations, for example, victims in Mississippi) in order to contain the disaster within known and comfortable, even if racist and classist, discursive boundaries. An analysis of the rhetorics involved in the shaping of the Katrina narrative informs us equally about media coverage and cultural identity, and can be utilized to not only encourage analytical competence and cultural literacy in the English classroom, but also to foster a sense of social responsibility and engagement in students.  \n* * *  \nLong before Katrina, the South functioned in the social imaginary to contain racism and poverty, and the Mason-Dixon acts then in the national imagination as a buffer to safeguard the nation from the taint of such undemocratic realities. With the advent of the Reagan era, neoliberal (paradoxically, neoconservative in U.S. parlance) ideologies, which dovetailed neatly with racism and classism, took firm hold and began to shape the dominant discourse, public policy, and the national imaginary. A sort of perversion of social liberalism by neoliberal ideologies operating in the social realm, social neoliberalism is a way of packaging the economic principles of free market turbo-capitalism in a wrapping of “personal responsibility,” which is attractive across the political spectrum and translates best through vocabularies of accountability and meritocracy, often leaning heavily toward a rhetoric of victim-blaming. Seen through such a frame, the poor are blamed for living in dangerous neighborhoods and for failing to evacuate them when ordered to do so. Writing in 1999 in Ecclesia in America, Pope John Paul II defined the hold that neoliberalism was gaining on the cultural imagination of the Americas, particularly North America, and its social consequences:  \nMore and more, in many countries of America, a system known as \"neoliberalism\" prevails; based on a purely economic conception of the human person  At times this system has become the ideological justification for certain attitudesand behavior in the social and political spheres leading to the neglect of the weaker members of society. Indeed, the poor are becoming ever more numerous, victims of specific policies and structures which are often unjust. [ 1]  \nThe uniform overlay of social neoliberalism on public discourse as reflected in mainstream media results in a “tightly controlled visual landscape” (Giroux 172) in which people living in poverty in the U.S. most often emerge as antagonists in the broad narrative of contemporary American life. Narrative can't exist without antagonism and conflict, good guys and bad guys, a sense of “us vs. them.”  \nA central image that emerged in Ronald Reagan's discourse and has hung on in the social imaginary with remarkable persistence was “the welfare queen.” This fictive character, an irresponsible black woman purportedly living in Chicago, was developed by Reagan over a period of about five years and mentioned consistently during his 1976 campaign for President. These tall tales “are legendary for legitimating allegedly popular stereotypes that equate welfare and race”(Schram and Neisser 117) . The well-known image of the welfare queen, like that of the “strapping young buck buying T-bone steaks” [2] at a time when regular working-class Americans could barely afford hamburger merged racism with","cbCaipnaI6M2lWk4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipnaI6M2lWk4","pdf",66649,12,"English","# Special Section: Empathy and Ethics\n## Covering (Up?) Katrina: Discursive Ambivalence in Coverage of Hurricane Katrina\n## Panel Purpose and Analytical Approach\n## Neoliberalism, Racism, and Poverty Framing\n## The “Welfare Queen” Stereotype\n## Framing, Ideology, and Classroom Literacy","[{\"question\":\"What is the panel’s purpose in analyzing Hurricane Katrina coverage?\",\"answer\":\"To analyze the discourse surrounding Katrina by interrogating rhetorical operations that foreground some aspects of the tragedy while relying on stereotypes instead of concrete material analysis.\"},{\"question\":\"How does neoliberalism shape public discourse according to the essay?\",\"answer\":\"Neoliberal ideologies package free-market principles through ideas like personal responsibility, often supporting accountability and meritocracy narratives that can shift blame toward victims and neglect weaker societal groups.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is the “welfare queen” stereotype central to the argument?\",\"answer\":\"It illustrates how Reagan-era discourse merges racism and classism to criminalize poverty, showing how racialized neoliberal framing can persist even when events like Katrina might disrupt it.\"}]","The CEA Forum Winter/Spring 2007 - Special Section: Empathy and Ethics - Covering (UP?) 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