![]() They also recount the impact that the displaced have had on communities that initially welcomed them and then later experienced "Katrina fatigue" as the ongoing needs of evacuees strained local resources. Drawing on research in thirteen communities in seven states across the country, the contributors describe the struggles that evacuees have faced in securing life-sustaining resources and rebuilding their lives. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced. The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. Still others found a way to return home but were unable to stay due to the limited availability of social services, educational opportunities, health care options, and affordable housing. Others have chosen to make their homes elsewhere. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina's landfall. What’s at stake is no less than the future of democracy.ĭisplaced : Life in the Katrina Diaspora Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. From the TV newsroom to the Capitol Building to the backyard, we must change the way we relate to the black and the poor among us. With this clarion call 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. And, finally, his critique of the way black people are framed in the national consciousness will shock and surprise even the most politically savvy reader. He explores the legacy of black suffering in America since slavery and ties its psychic scars to today’s crisis. 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. Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim and fans all across the color line, Michael Eric Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. 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. ![]() ![]() The Federal government’s slow response to local appeals for help is by now notorious. The majority of these people were black nearly all were poor. Come Hell or High Water : Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster 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. ![]()
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