Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 212 pages
• Published by: Frontlines Press
• Edition: 1st Edition August 1, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0972126325
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0972126328
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Weighs: 12 ounces

Product Review
Buy this book and study it well. Eric Mann was my first teacher in the black freedom movement; he taught -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics

Buy this book and study it well. Eric Mann was my first teacher in the black freedom movement -- Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics

Eric Mann is one of the few people who can combine strategy, tactics, effective organizing, and compelling writing. -- Phil Hutchings, Former chair, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Eric Mann's Katrina's Legacy is excellent. Mann has a distinct talent for drawing political lessons from historical events -- Vijay Prashad, author of Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity

Excellent. Mann has a distinct talent for drawing political lessons from historical events. Every movement requirements a map -- Vijay Prashad, author of Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity

Glen Ford --Frontlines Press interview

Katrina's Legacy stands with Black Nations 9/11 as the clearest strategic statement within the movement, a must read -- Kali Akuno, People's Hurricane Relief Fund Oversight Coalition

Komozi Woodard --Frontlines Press interview

Mann's writing is a door. Our movementdepends on our ability to comprehend and embrace the demands Mann describes -- Xochitl Bervera, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children

Places the Gulf catastrophe in the historical context of racist capitalist rule in the U.S. at a critical time when -- Glen Ford, Executive Editor and Co-Publisher, The Black Commentator

Vijay Prashad --Frontlines Press interview

Product Description
Katrina's Legacy focuses on the centrality of the Black Liberation Movement the entire U.S. Left and programmatic proposals supporting a new reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Reader Reviews
A critical analysis of the Katrina situation tying the information to the Black Power Movement of the 1970s and provinding recommended policies. Uses Marxist, socialist, afrocentric viewpoints which may require some intrepretation for persons not familiar with those perspectives. However a minimum of jargon in used.