What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Na...
James, Joy / South End Press
Short and accessible, this anthology, featuring such voices as Vandana Shiva, Glen Ford, Jordan Flaherty, and Robert Bullard, takes readers beyond the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. It explores the complexity of this turning point in U.S. history when thousands of New Orleans residents--overwhelmingly poor, largely people of color--were left to face one of the worst "natural" disasters on their own.