Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast - Softcover

Eric-mann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972126325 ISBN 13: 9780972126328

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Katrina’s Legacy focuses on the centrality of the Black Liberation Movement for the entire U.S. Left and programmatic proposals supporting a new reconstruction in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina of August 28, 2005.

Major themes include: Reconstructing New Orleans as a Black city; focusing on the Right of Return for the Black majority; demands for land, reparations, and self-determination; a serious discussion of environmental justice and global warming; "Black women in the eye of the storm;" an up-to-date discussion of the immigrant rights movement and its implications for the Gulf Coast and the U.S. Left; a critique of white supremacy in the country and in sectors of the movement; an analysis of the Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Right and the true threat of a fascist movement taking place in front of our very eyes that goes far beyond facile Bush-bashing; and the centrality of the Black Liberation movement and a Black/Latino alliance in building a broad, multi-racial, anti-racist, anti-imperialist united front.

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Eric Mann is director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center and member of the Bus Riders Union Planning Committee in Los Angeles. He has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer with the Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, and the United Auto Workers, including eight years on auto assembly lines. In 2001 he was a delegate to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa where he participated in the protests against the U.S. government’s walk out. He returned to South Africa in 2002 as part of a Strategy Center delegatation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He is the co-host of the weekly radio show, "Voices from the Frontlines," on KPFK Pacifica in Los Angeles.

He is the author of six books, including Comrade George: An Investigation into the Life, Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson (Harper and Row) Taking on General Motors: Insurgency in a United Auto Workers Local Local (UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations) L.A.’s Lethal Air: New Strategies for Environmental Organizing (Strategy Center Publications) Dispatches from Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies (Frontlines Press) The 2004 Elections: A Turning Point for the U.S. Left

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• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0972126325
• ISBN 13: 9780972126328
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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