Blackademe Weighs in on Katrina, 9/11 and Kanye West

It Is About Race
by William Jelani Cobb

William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of History at Spelman College.

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Commentary: A Perspective on Looters and Race
by Lester Spence

Lester Kenyatta Spence is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University

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Left Behind: Backdrop to a National Crisis
by Peniel E. Joseph, Ph.D.

Peniel E. Joseph teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at SUNY-Stony Brook.

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Wahneema Lubiano on Race, Class, Katrina and the Left

Wahneema Lubiano is Associate Professor of Literature and African and African American Studies at Duke University

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Commentary: New Orleans' Cities of the Dead
by Karla Holloway

Karla FC Holloway is William R. Kenan Professor of English at Duke University

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‘Our Tsunami’: Race, Religion and Mourning in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
A Sermon by Maurice O. Wallace

Maurice Wallace is Associate Professor of English and African and African-American Studies at Duke University

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Commentary”: On the Fourth Anniversary of Sept. 11
by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Farah Jasmine Griffin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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Thank You, Kanye!
by Fanon Che Wilkins

Fanon Che Wilkins is an Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Race-ing Katrina
by Mark Anthony Neal

Mark Anthony Neal is Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies at Duke University