Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0721C77GG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 450 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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CLYDE WOODS (1957–2011) was an associate professor of Black studies and acting director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta, and editor of In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions.JORDAN CAMP is a postdoctoral fellow in race and ethnicity and international public affairs at Brown University.LAURA PULIDO is a professor of ethnic studies and geography at the University of Oregon.
What emerges is a monumental project that understands how the brutality of racial capitalism provides the conditions to develop and sustain a variety of sacred intellectual movements and creative acts. Woods provides a powerful optic for understanding the long unfolding of black freedom movements across time, while also explaining the persistent reinvention and re-institutionalization of spatial and economic strategies of racial dominance. (Katherine McKittrick, Gender Studies, Queen's University)Development Drowned and Reborn situates Katrina flooded New Orleans as a central focus of our nation’s history. Insistently claiming the social life that has been made on the horns of white supremacy, Woods reminds us that the radical Reconstruction agenda remains unfulfilledthat even as racial despotism has demonstrated resilience and ca
Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development.Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance.Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. culture and economy. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals