Settler Colonialism Is the Disaster

A Critique of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cassandra Shepard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2026
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08914-5 (ISBN)

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Rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and during the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed perpetual disaster on New Orleans' Black and Indigenous communities. Neoliberalism masked by the auspices of repair, progress, and inclusion reinforced the plight of the urban poor while exacerbating the racial and class inequalities that existed before the storm. Cassandra Shepard's analysis draws on ideas of settler-colonialism to chart how depriving Black and Indigenous people of critical resources intensified the harm, violence, and death inherent in systems of colonization. As Shepard shows, the rhetoric of improvement allows coloniality to masquerade as rebuilding while white elites consolidate power, profit, and privilege. Displaced and disenfranchised people of color, meanwhile, experience the impact of racial-disaster capitalism, with the chaos surrounding Katrina and COVID-19 obscuring the for-profit economic, political, and social exploitation of non-white New Orleanians. Ambitious and provocative, Settler Colonialism is the Disaster refutes the myth of New Orleans' presumptive revival by shining new light on the ongoing colonization project at its heart.

Cassandra Shepard is an assistant professor in the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	New Black Studies Series
Zusatzinfo	28 black & white photos; 1 table
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08914-6 / 0252089146
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08914-5 / 9780252089145
Zustand	Neuware