This book gathers together responses to the hurricane from over thirty contributors, including community activists, sociologists, writers and musicians. Some have been displaced by the hurricane and write about what they have lost. Others write from a distance, seeing patterns in the response to the hurricane that reflect a cultural bias of race and class. Together they offer not only critical assessments of what went wrong, but also hopeful conjecture about possibilities for the future of New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the United States.
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Here is another retrospective on Hurricane Katrina. Taking a multidisciplinary approach of amassing papers from a variety of specialists. The chapters review the events during Katrina, but the emphasis seems more on the aftermath. There are numerous recommendations about how to avoid future disasters. Some specifically for New Orleans, since it is under sea level and thus the most vulnerable American city.
On a broader scale, the book can be read as a precaution against future hurricanes impinging anywhere on the Gulf coast or Florida. The recommendations are largely uncontroversial. And some of these, like better coordination between government agencies, are already being done.
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What happened to New Orleans is a bipartisan political crime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, United States, New Deal, Gulf Coast, African Americans, President Bush, French Quarter, Mardi Gras, Martin Luther King, Baton Rouge, Collective Individualism, Red Cross, Santa Cruz, Army Corps of Engineers, Dred Scott, Ethical Reconstruction Commission, Naomi Klein, Big Easy, Bill Clinton, Cancer Alley, Community Labor United, Howard Blue, Native Americans, Nueva Orleans, Ronald Reagan New!
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What happened to New Orleans is a bipartisan political crime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Orleans, United States, New Deal, Gulf Coast, African Americans, President Bush, French Quarter, Mardi Gras, Martin Luther King, Baton Rouge, Collective Individualism, Red Cross, Santa Cruz, Army Corps of Engineers, Dred Scott, Ethical Reconstruction Commission, Naomi Klein, Big Easy, Bill Clinton, Cancer Alley, Community Labor United, Howard Blue, Native Americans, Nueva Orleans, Ronald Reagan New!
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- Black's Law Dictionary, Second Pocket Edition by Bryan A. Garner on page 70, and page 72
- Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 (vol. 3) by Antonio Gramsci on page 168
- Jewish Renewal: Path to Healing and Transformation, A by Michael Lerner in Back Matter
- Latin America: The Search for a New International Role (Latin American international affairs series) by Ronald G. Hellman on page 34
- Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization by Arnold R. Hirsch on page 29
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