Racialized Disasters and Political Mobilization: Southern Movement Assemblage in the post-Katrina Era

• In Event: Civil Society, Participation and Policy Outcomes

Brief Overview

Using archival sources and interviews of activists and organization leaders in the Deep South, this paper demonstrates how natural disasters (e.g., Hurricane Katrina) can be a catalyst for durable political solidarity for marginalized groups.

Author

• Gwen Prowse, Yale University