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Come Hell or High Water
Hurricane Kartina and the Color of Disaster
Edition 1
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Michael Dyson applies his prodigious critical acumen to the Hurricane Katrina matter--and he sees that the natural disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast region was followed immediately by a manmade ......more
Michael Dyson applies his prodigious critical acumen to the Hurricane Katrina matter--and he sees that the natural disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast region was followed immediately by a manmade disaster that was worse. In unsparing prose, Dyson reports on how this unconscionable total breakdown of government impacted along racial lines, and he places these events within a larger context of social policy and race relations that always plague the poor and people of color. Dyson connects the dots as he reports on events, news stories, and his own interviews with survivors who tell a tale of neglect, open hostility, and poor and delayed response at the local, state, and federal levels. He is ruthless in his contempt, and his criticism falls on the media whose portrayals of people of color evinced a long-running bias that only contributes to the problem. Hurricane Katrina cut deeply into the community, and in COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, Dyson, who is a Baptist minister, offers religion as consolation, as he reports not only on what happened with Hurricane Katrina--but on what always seems to happen in a country permeated with racism.
- Author:
- Dyson, Michael Eric
- ISBN:
- 9780465017720
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 270
- Publish Date:
- 07/02/2007
- Publisher:
- Basic Civitas Books
- Language:
- English
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Starred ReviewThe first major book to be released about Hurricane Katrina, Dyson's volume not only chronicles what happened when, it also argues that the nation's failure to offer timely aid to Katrina's victims indicates deeper problems in race and class relations. Dyson's time lines will surely be disputed, his indictments of specific New Orleans failures defended or whitewashed. But these points are secondary. More important are the larger questions Dyson (Between God and Gangsta Rap, etc.) poses, such as "What do politicians sold on the idea of limited governance offer to folk who need, and deserve, the government to come to their aid?" "Does George Bush care about black people?" and "Do well-off black people care about poor black people?" With its abundance of buzz-worthy coinages, like "Aframnesia" and "Afristocracy," Dyson's populist style sometimes gets too cute. But his contention that Katrina exposed a dominant culture pervaded not only by "active malice" toward poor blacks but also by a long history of "passive indifference" to their problems is both powerful and unsettling. Through this history of neglect, Dyson suggests, America has broken its social contract with poor blacks who, since Emancipation, have assumed that government will protect all its citizens. Yet when disaster struck the poor, the cavalry arrived four days late. (Jan. 16) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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