Unnatural disaster
Subtitle: the nation on Hurricane Katrina
By: edited by Betsy Reed ; introduction by Adolph Reed.
Contributors: Betsy Reed (Editor); Adolph Reed (Introduction)
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781560259374
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Natural Disasters; Louisiana - Local History; History; United States - 21st Century; History: American; Public Policy - General; Politics - Current Events; Disaster Relief & Rescue Operations; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science / Government / National; Government - National; Government policy; Marginality, Social; People with social disabilities; Racism; United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Sturm und drang. The view from Lott's porch / by Patricia J. Williams; title: The Big Easy dies hard / by Christian Parenti; title: FEMA: confederacy of dunces / by John Elliston; title: Global storm warning / by Mark Hertsgaard; title: Looting the Black poor / by Earl Ofari Hutchinson; title: Class-ifying the Hurricane / by Adolph Reed, Jr.; title: Bread, roses, and the flood / by Eric Foner; title: Bohemia's last frontier / by Curtis Wilkie; title: Levee town / by Alexander Cockburn; title: The real costs of a culture of greed / by Robert Scheer; title: Found in the flood / by Eric Alterman; title: The disaster President / by the editors [of The Nation magazine]; title: Part Two. The looting of New Orleans. Purging the poor / by Naomi Klein; title: Doing the math / by Naomi Klein and Aaron Mate; title: GOP opportunity zone; title: Blackwater down / by Jeremy Scahill; title: Pat Robertson's Katrina cash / by Max Blumenthal; title: Katrina and the coming world oil crunch / by Michael T. Klare; title: The reconstruction of New Oraq / by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse; title: Left to die / by Billy Sothern; title: Part Three. A people's reconstruction. Hurricane gumbo / by Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot; title: Beyond shelters / by Michael Tisserand; title: A second-line revival / by Billy Sothern; title: Let the people rebuild New Orleans / by Naomi Klein; title: New Orleans: raze or rebuild? / by Christian Parenti; title: A "New" new deal / by William Greider; title: History lessons / by Katrina vanden Heuvel; title: Visionaries wanted / by Nicholas von Hoffman; title: Prez on the precipice / by the editors [of The Nation magazine]; title: Part Four. After the flood. 25 questions about the murder of New Orleans / by Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot; title: In the shadow of disaster / by Ari Kelman; title: Katrina lives / by Susan Straight; title: New Orleans blues / by the editors [of The Nation magazine]; title: Hard times in the Big Easy / by Gary Younge; title: Bush's new storm / by Michael Tisserand; title: Neglect in New Orleans / by the editors [of The Nation magazine]; title: Suppressing the N.O. vote / by the editors [of The Nation magazine]; title: The battle of New Orleans / by Gary Younge.