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What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation by Joy James (Afterword), South End Press (Editor), Glen Ford, Jordan Flaherty, Bell Hooks (Editor) Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-89608-767-0 / 0896087670 ISBN-13: 978-0-89608-767-5 / 9780896087675 In August 2005, thousands of New Orleans residents—overwhelmingly poor, largely people of color, the majority black—were left to face one of the worst “natural” disasters in US history on their own. They were left to die in prisons, in nursing homes, and on the street. Survivors were criminalized as |