Contents:
  • Introduction / Lori Latrice Martin
  • A tale of two cities : race and wealth inequality in the new South / Lori Latrice Martin, Kenneth Fasching-Varner, and Melinda Jackson
  • Accelerated categorical inequality : New Orleans in the eye of the storm / Geoffrey L. Wood
  • Loaded gun complex : engaging education and penal realism in post Katrina times / Kenneth Fasching-Varner
  • What do you know about my black son? : a counternarrative that challenges the deficit perspective / Tracey P. Baxley
  • Three Louisiana floods : cases of genocide? / Teresa A. Booker
  • Can you hear me now? : race, call-ins, and the myth of public accountability / Lori Latrice Martin and Kenneth Fasching-Varner
  • The effects of Hurricane Katrina on black women : understanding women's fear through an intersectional lens / Melinda Jackson, Castel Sweet, and Dari Green
  • Hand over minority economies (H.O.M.E.) : examining the persistent waves of divesting, dismantling, and devaluing of black bodies in America / Tifanie Pulley and Lori Latrice Martin
  • Giving students voice : book dealing and discussions that build a broken community / Susan Densmore-James
  • Triple threat : Hurricane Katrina and the Walmartization of communities of color / Lori Latrice Martin.