Review of Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six by Jordan Flaherty reviewed by Doreen Piano
While many Katrina-related books have highlighted the egregious national government negligence in the immediate aftermath of the levee breaks in New Orleans, Jordan Flaherty’s Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six is more concerned with how local government decisions, such as the closing of Charity Hospital, the razing of public housing, and…