Floodlines : community and resistance from Katrina to the Jena six / Jordan Flaherty.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flaherty, Jordan
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2010.
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricanes > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disaster victims > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Emergency management > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Physical Description:xix, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • We won't bow down : culture and resistance in New Orleans
  • Lies on the news : the flood and its aftermath
  • Still got me in disbelief : New Orleans after the storm
  • Wonder how we doin' : the blank slate
  • Dollar day in New Orleans : money and relief
  • Behind them penitentiary walls : organizing in prison
  • Serve and protect : criminalizing the survivors
  • You don't want to go to war : the struggle for housing
  • The rest of the world lives here too : immigrant struggles
  • Fight for what's right : the Jena generation.