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Hurricane Katrina And the Color of Disaster
Perseus Books Group
March 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 0465017614
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Non-Fiction
What Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race
and poverty in America-and what lessons we must take from
the flood-from best-selling "hip-hop intellectual" Michael
Eric Dyson
Does George W. Bush care about black people? Does the rest of America? When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf
Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the
ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The
majority of these people were black; nearly all were poor.
The federal government's slow response to local appeals for
help is by now notorious. Yet despite the cries of outrage
that have mounted since the levees broke, we have failed to
confront the disaster's true lesson: to be poor, or black,
in today's ownership society, is to be left behind. Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and
personal empathy that have won him fans across the color
line, Michael Eric Dyson offers a searing assessment of the
meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Combining interviews with
survivors of the disaster with his deep knowledge of black
migrations and government policy over decades, Dyson
provides the historical context that has been sorely missing
from public conversation. He explores the legacy of black
suffering in America since slavery, including the shocking
ways that black people are framed in the national
consciousness even today. With this call-to-action, Dyson warns us that we can only
find redemption as a society if we acknowledge that Katrina
was more than an engineering or emergency response failure.
From the TV newsroom to the Capitol Building to the
backyard, we must change the ways we relate to the black and
the poor among us. What's at stake is no less than the
future of democracy.
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