Settler Colonialism is the Disaster A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic | 4.37 MB
Title: Settler Colonialism is the Disaster
Author: Cassandra Shepard
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies
Language: English | 270 Pages | ISBN: 0252089146
Description:
Rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and during the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed perpetual disaster on New Orleans' Black and Indigenous communities. Neoliberalism masked by the auspices of repair, progress, and inclusion reinforced the plight of the urban poor while exacerbating the racial and class inequalities that existed before the storm. Cassandra Shepard's analysis draws on ideas of settler-colonialism to chart how depriving Black and Indigenous people of critical resources intensified the harm, violence, and death inherent in systems of colonization. As Shepard shows, the rhetoric of improvement allows coloniality to masquerade as rebuilding while white elites consolidate power, profit, and privilege. Displaced and disenfranchised people of color, meanwhile, experience the impact of racial-disaster capitalism, with the chaos surrounding Katrina and COVID-19 obscuring the for-profit economic, political, and social exploitation of non-white New Orleanians....
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