Floodlines
Subtitle: community and resistance from Katrina to the Jena six
By: Jordan Flaherty
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781608460656
Subjects: Emergency management; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Hurricanes; Disaster victims
Description: Argues that the government failed the African-American residents of New Orleans in the years following Hurricane Katrina, describing restrictions of service, human rights violations, and destruction of property that targeted the city's African-American community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: We won't bow down : culture and resistance in New Orleans; title: Lies on the news : the flood and its aftermath; title: Still got me in disbelief : New Orleans after the storm; title: Wonder how we doin' : the blank slate; title: Dollar day in New Orleans : money and relief; title: Behind them penitentiary walls : organizing in prison; title: Serve and protect : criminalizing the survivors; title: You don't want to go to war : the struggle for housing; title: The rest of the world lives here too : immigrant struggles; title: Fight for what's right : the Jena generation.