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    “What Lies Beneath is « book that will keep alive the memory of one of the most dramatic and terrible events of the new millenium—the catastrophe of the Katrina hurricane, and its aftermath. ‘The wters, ‘comeatthe event rom many different vantage points, but they all probe deeply into those fateful weeks, pointing us to the larger significance of the disaster and the reactions to it. At the center of the story are the unavoidable issues of race, class, and the shameful callousness of officaldom. This book will keep us thinking for a long time about ‘what happened, why it happened, and provoke us to examine honestly the nature of the society in which we ive” howard zinn, A People's History ofthe United States “The suffering that continues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina isnot accidental, It results from years of intentional, planned wrong doing committed by powerful economic and politica interests. Future ‘human-made disasters will only be prevented if the prophetic voices presented in What Lies Beneath are heeded.” —margaret kimberly, Freedom Rider blog "We never know enough about our enemies. That's why they do so well. Katrina was a cover and an exposer of Bush Fascism . This book helps us understand this. Understand or die!” —amiri baraka, Tiles ofthe Out & the Gone “This volume is wide-ranging in style as it narrows in on its subject— the truth about rice in the United States that is revealed in the events around Hurricane Katrina. The combination of on-the-ground reporting and analysis placing events in the wider context helps readers untangle the way in which race, gender, and class affected the ‘outcome of that most unnatural disaster. The book bristles with the anger we all should feel, and offers the critical self-reflection we all should engage in. —robert jensen, Tie Heart of Whiteness WHAT LIES BENEATH Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation eT EDITED BY THE SOUTH END PRESS COLLECTIVE south end press cambridge, massachusetts 2007 the obscusity of black suffering jared sexton the meaning of “disaster” under the dominance of white life dylan rodriguez ‘afterword: politica! literacy and voice joy james on refuge and language suheir hammad index acknowledgments about the contributors about the people’s hurricane relief fund and oversight committee about south end press 120 133 157 167 170 176 7 181 182 preface up from the depths south end press collective en ond press collective “In all these struggles we must be assertive and challenging, combating the deep-seated tendency in Americans to be liberal, thats, to evade struggling over questions of principle for fear of creating tensions or Becoming unpopular. Instead we must live by the fundamental dialectical principle: that progress comes only from struggling to resolve contradictions” —anonymoushy-authored feminist parspBlet, (1976). ‘Quoted in Ain't 1a Woman, bell books (1981) [Avs 2005, thousands of New Osleans and other US Gulf region residents—overwhelmingly poor, overwhelmingly people of color, the majority black —were left on their own to face one of the worst “natural” disasters in US history. As Katrina’ waters receded and the body count soared, an ugly truth (re)surfaced: the lives of those who are poor, who are vulnerable, and who are not white are not valued by the US government. And so, those with no means to escape were implored to pray and then blamed. And so, survivors were ‘riminalized as “looters” for struggling to obtain food, water, diapers, medicine, and other essentials of life that no one else could or would provide. And so, they were left to die in prisons, in nursing homes, and on the street. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, a levee of a

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