Development drowned and reborn : the Blues and Bourbon restorations in post-Katrina New Orleans / Clyde Woods ; edited by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido.
About Clyde Woods -- Foreword / Laura Pulido and Jordan T. Camp -- Introduction: The Dialectics of Bourbonism and the Blues / Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido -- I Thought I Heard Samba Bambara Say : The Social Construction of New Orleans -- I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say : Reconstruction, Bourbonism, and the Jazz Renaissance Blues as Planning -- Hemispheric UNIA and the Great Flood, 1915-1928 -- The Share the Wealth Plan : Longism, 1928-1940 -- The Double V Generation and the Blues Agenda in the Postwar Period -- The Second Reconstruction, 1965-1977 : The Neo-Bourbon War on Poverty and Massive Resistance in Concrete -- The Disaster before the Disaster : Oil Regimes, Plantation Economics, and the Southern Strategy, 1977-2005 -- The New Urban Crisis : Katrina Time and the Planned Abandonment Movement -- Conclusion: The Cornerstone of the Third Reconstruction / Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido.
Summary:
"Development Drowned and Reborn is a 'Blues geography' of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. 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. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development"--Provided by publisher.
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