Table of Contents
Index:
SOME HISTORY OF RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE KATRINA
"THEY LEFT US HERE TO DIE"
- Voices of Survival and Solidarity During the Great Flood
- Katrina in New Orleans: A Disaster Industrial Complex
- Institutions: Where There is Oppression, There is Resistance
- Economy:
- Education:
- Elections
- Environment:
- Foundations
- Health:
- Housing:
- Media, Polls, Ideology, Culture:
- Prison Industrial Complex:
- Religion:
- One Year After the Great Flood
SOME EXAMPLES OF GRASSROOTS RACIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA
ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY: SOME PERSPECTIVES AND TOOLS
- Perspectives and Tools (primarily for white activists)
- Solidarity Stories: mostly from the San Francisco Bayview (in progress)
SOME RESOURCES AND LINKS
ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO BROWSE THE READER:
For More Readings on History
Some beginning suggestions:
- Brod Bagert, Jr., HOPE VI AND ST. THOMAS: SMOKE, MIRRORS AND URBAN MERCANTILISM. London School of Economics, Sept. 2002. www.survivorsvillage.com/docs/HOPEVlandStThomas.pdf.
- John M. Barry, RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
- Mary Gehman, THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR OF NEW ORLEANS: AN INTRODUCTION. New Orleans: Margaret Media, Inc. 1994.
- Lance Hill, "THE DEACONS FOR DEFENSE": ARMED RESISTANCE AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
- Eric Mann, KATRINA'S LEGACY: WHITE RACISM AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN NEW ORLEANS AND THE GULF COAST, Los Angeles: Frontlines Press, 2006. (www.frontlinespress.com)
- Michael Otieno Molina, THE SECOND LINE. Self published, 2006. (A novel about culture, tradition and history in New Orleans before Katrina. See www.purgatorystories.blogspot.com.)