Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans

✍ Scribed by Clyde Woods, Laura Pulido, Jordan T. Camp

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation, 35
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance.

Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development.

Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to overlook New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
“We Made It”
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
About Clyde Woods
Foreword
INTRODUCTION: The Dialectics of Bourbonism and the Blues
CHAPTER 1 I Thought I Heard Samba Bambara Say: The Social Construction of New Orleans
CHAPTER 2 I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say: Reconstruction, Bourbonism, and the Jazz Renaissance Blues as Planning
CHAPTER 3 Hemispheric UNIA and the Great Flood, 1915–1928
CHAPTER 4 The Share the Wealth Plan: Longism, 1928–1940
CHAPTER 5 The Double V Generation and the Blues Agenda, 1940–1965
CHAPTER 6 The Second Reconstruction, 1965–1977: The Neo-Bourbon War on Poverty and Massive Resistance in Concrete
CHAPTER 7 The Disaster before the Disaster: Oil Regimes, Plantation Economics, and the Southern Strategy, 1977–2005
CHAPTER 8 The New Urban Crisis: Katrina Time and the Planned Abandonment Movement
CONCLUSION: The Cornerstone of a Third Reconstruction
Notes
Credits
Index
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