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Thirteen prominent black intellectuals explore the meaning of Katrina and
address some of the difficult and disturbing questions raised in its wake.
After the Storm helps us understand what happened in the Gulf region, what
should happen in the recovery and redevelopment effort, and what these events
tell us about inequality in contemporary America.
Synopsis
"These 10 original, judiciously edited essays--most of them by lawyers--explore
the political and social response to Hurricane Katrina....All are succinct and
fresh...."
Leading African American scholars use post-hurricane Louisiana as a window
into twenty-first-century black America.
In one emblematic photograph, a bloated body floats facedown on the left while,
to the right, a woman stands on an overpass, oblivious. Both the body and the
distracted survivor are black.
With more than a thousand dead, entire neighborhoods destroyed, and a diaspora
of tens of thousands of poor, mostly black, and previously invisible people
suddenly in view, Hurricane Katrina presents issues of race, space, class, and
politics in high relief.
In a book of visceral and scholarly critique, analysis, and prescription,
published on the first anniversary of the storm, a dozen prominent black
intellectuals face the difficult questions about poverty, housing, governmental
decision-making, crime, community development, and political participation that
Katrina raised.
Determined to offer insights about renewal, their contributions help the nation
to understand what happened in the Gulf region, what is likely to happen in the
recovery and redevelopment effort to come, and what these events tell us about
poverty and inequality in contemporary America.
Contributors include: Adolph Reed, Sheryll Cashin, Clement Price, Cheryl
Harris, Devon Carbado, Katheryn Russell-Brown, Adrien Wing, Anthony Farley,
John Valery White
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