Bad Luck And Trouble

by Ridgeway, James

• ISBN13: 9781583227336
• ISBN10: 1583227334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-23
• Publisher: Seven Stories Pr

Summary

The flooding and chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina became a disaster of unprecedented proportions, wreaking a level of destruction and human suffering that would have seemed unimaginable in twenty-first-century America. They also exposed the deadly potential of not only nature, but of poverty, racism, and political neglect. Bad Luck and Trouble: The Making of the Great Flood of 2005 combines eyewitness accounts, blogs, and interviews with other original materials, from historical documents to contemporary reports, blues lyrics to leaked government memos.   Bad Luck and Trouble demonstrates that the suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina was not spawned by an overnight disaster. Its makings stem as far back as to over a century ago when the Army Corps of Engineers redrew the environmental map of the region (often in service of powerful oil, petrochemical, and agricultural interests), and the disaster's ramifications are as far-reaching as the gentrification and racial cleansing of major regions in the South and the dismantling of federal social programs that will affect all of America.   Bad Luck and Trouble is a crucial look at what the Great Flood of 2005 tells us about race and class in America, and the true state of US "national security."   Currently the Washington correspondent for The Village Voice , James Ridgeway has authored more than fifteen books and co-directed the films Blood in the Face and Feed .   Jean Casella has worked in independent book publishing for more than twenty years, most recently as publisher of The Feminist Press, and is co-editor of two anthologies.