Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : The New Press : Distributed by W. W. Norton & Co., c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Troutt, David Dante.

Description

xxvii, 164 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Presents a collection of essays by leading African-American scholars examining the devastation of post-hurricane Louisiana to explore issues of race, space, class, poverty, crime, housing, and politics in America.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• 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 > History > United States > 21st century
• United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History > 21st century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Many thousands gone, again / David Dante Troutt -- Katrina : the American dilemma redux / Sheryll Cashin -- The persistence of race politics and the restraint of recovery in Katrina's wake / John Valery White -- The real divide / Adolph L. Reed, Jr. -- Historicizing Katrina / Clement Alexander Price -- Great migrations? / Michael Eric Dyson -- Loot or find : fact or frame? / Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado -- While visions of deviance danced in their heads / Katheryn Russell-Brown -- From wrongs to rights : Hurricane Katrina from a global perspective / Adrien Katherine Wing -- The station / Anthony Paul Farley.

ISBN

• 1595581162 (hardcover)
• 9781595581167 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2006008883

OCLC

• 65644271
• SCSB-10273013

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library