| Description |
xxx, 240 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Sturm und drang -- The view from Lott's porch / by Patricia J. Williams -- The Big Easy dies hard / by Christian Parenti -- FEMA: confederacy of dunces / by John Elliston -- Global storm warning / by Mark Hertsgaard -- Looting the Black poor / by Earl Ofari Hutchinson -- Class-ifying the Hurricane / by Adolph Reed, Jr. -- Bread, roses, and the flood / by Eric Foner -- Bohemia's last frontier / by Curtis Wilkie -- Levee town / by Alexander Cockburn -- The real costs of a culture of greed / by Robert Scheer -- Found in the flood / by Eric Alterman -- The disaster President / by the editors [of The Nation magazine] -- The looting of New Orleans -- Purging the poor / by Naomi Klein -- Doing the math / by Naomi Klein and Aaron Mate -- GOP opportunity zone -- Blackwater down / by Jeremy Scahill -- Pat Robertson's Katrina cash / by Max Blumenthal -- Katrina and the coming world oil crunch / by Michael T. Klare -- The reconstruction of New Oraq / by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse -- Left to die / by Billy Sothern -- A people's reconstruction -- Hurricanegumbo / by Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot -- Beyond shelters / by Michael Tisserand -- A second-line revival / by Billy Sothern -- Let the people rebuild New Orleans / by Naomi Klein -- New Orleans: raze or rebuild? / by Christian Parenti -- A "New" new deal / by William Greider -- History lessons / by Katrina vanden Heuvel -- Visionaries wanted / by Nicholas von Hoffman -- Prez on the precipice / by the editors [of The Nation magazine] -- After the flood -- 25 questions about the murder of New Orleans / by Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot -- In the shadow of disaster / by Ari Kelman -- Katrina lives / by Susan Straight -- New Orleans blues / by the editors [of The Nation magazine] -- Hard times in the Big Easy / by Gary Younge -- Bush's new storm / by Michael Tisserand -- Neglect in New Orleans / by the editors [of The Nation magazine] -- Supressing the N.O. vote / by the editors [of The Nation magazine] -- The battle of New Orleans / by Gary Younge. |
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Marginality, Social -- United States.
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People with social disabilities -- Government policy -- United States.
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Racism -- United States.
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Neoliberalism -- United States.
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Reed, Betsy, 1968-
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Reed, Adolph L., 1947-
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| ISBN |
156025937X paperback $14.95 |
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9781560259374 paperback $14.95 |
| Standard No. |
9781560259374 |
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