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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsAfter the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrinaby David Dante Troutt
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Leading African American scholars use post-hurricane Louisiana as a window into twenty-first-century black America. "Race has become a subtext for just about every contentious decision [New Orleans] faces."—James Dao, The New York Times, January 22, 2006 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 Book News Annotation:As the disaster of Hurricane Katrina unfolded on America's television
screens, the issues of race and poverty were forcefully pulled from
relative invisibility and forced, however briefly, into the nation's
consciousness. In this collection of ten essays, Troutt (law, Rutgers
U.) and other African American writers do their best to prevent them
from slipping back into obscurity and to tease out the broader
societal implications of Katrina and its aftermath. Essays explore
the history of US metropolitan spatial politics and African American
exclusion, class and race politics in New Orleans, the historical
links between natural disaster and black migration, the meanings of
racial identity revealed by media and popular discourses of Katrina,
and the international legal rights of those displaced by Katrina.
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Leading African-American scholars use post-hurricane Louisiana as a window into 21st century Black America. About the AuthorDavid Dante Troutt is a professor of law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at Rutgers University. Author of The Monkey Suit (The New Press), among other books, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Derrick Bell is a visiting professor of law at New York University and lives in New York City. Charles Ogletree is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard University and director of the Institute for Race and Justice. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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