TEACHSOC: teaching through Katrina

[Sarah Murray]

Hi all, I am using a recording of an interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin taken from Air America Radio in the immediate aftermath, in which he plainly and poignantly describes the abandonment of his city by the administration, his frustration and anger over the priorities of our nation and over its social division, and an explanation for the desperation that led to looting.   I hope that future editions of the book I'm using, Barbara Chasin's Inequality and Violence in America: Casualities of Capitalism, will include mention of this catastrophe.   Sarah Murray William Paterson U of NJ