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Title After the storm : Black intellectuals explore the meaning of Hurricane Katrina / edited by David Dante Troutt.

Imprint New York : New Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.896073 Af89 2006    ---  Available
Description xxvii, 164 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Part one: Race, poverty, and place. Many thousands gone, again / David Dante Troutt -- Katrina : the American dilemma redux / Sheryll Cashin -- Part two: Class, politics, and the politics of race. Persistence of race politics and the restraint of recovery in Katrina's wake / John Valery White -- Real divide / Adolph L. Reed, Jr. -- Part three: Disasters and diaspora. Historicizing Katrina / Clement Alexander Price -- Great migrations? / Michael Eric Dyson -- Part four: Perceiving the image, framing identity, and critiquing "crime". Loot or find : fact or frame? / Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado -- While visions of deviance danced in their heads / Katheryn Russell-Brown -- Part five: Rights and shared humanities. From wrongs to rights : Hurricane Katrina from a global perspective / Adrien Katherine Wing -- Station / Anthony Paul Farley.
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Political aspects.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 21st century.
Added Author Troutt, David Dante.
ISBN 1595581162 (hardcover)
9781595581167 (hardcover)
Standard No. YDXCP 2438248

 
    
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