Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword Amy Goodman xi
Preface Tracie Washington xviii
Introduction: We Know This Place 1
1 We Won't Bow Down: Culture and Resistance in New Orleans 5
2 Lies on the News: The Flood and Its Aftermath 31
3 Still Got Me in Disbelief: New Orleans After the Storm 53
4 Wonder How We Doin': The Blank Slate 79
5 Dollar Day in New Orleans: Money and Relief 113
6 Behind Them Penitentiary Walls: Organizing in Prison 135
7 Serve and Protect: Criminalizing the Survivors 157
8 You Don't Want to Go to War: The Struggle for Housing 183
9 The Rest of the World Lives Here Too: Immigrant Struggles 213
10 Fight for What's Right: The Jena Generation 227
Conclusion: Desire 255
Appendix I Organizations in the Struggle for Post-Katrina Justice 267
Appendix II Letter from the People of New Orleans to Our Friends and Allies 274
Appendix III Pledge in Support of a Just Rebuilding of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, and the U.S. Gulf Coast 277
Appendix IV New Orleans Films 279
Notes 283
Index 295