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Katrina and the Banshee's Wail: The Racialization of Class Exploitation

2007; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1532708606295644

1552-356X

Peter McLaren, Nathalia E. Jaramillo,

Political Economy and Marxism

In this article, the authors examine Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on the people of New Orleans from a historical materialist perspective. In their analysis, the authors discuss Katrina in relation to capitalism's overall devastating consequences for the ecosphere as well as the global division of labor and its racialized social relations. They further suggest that the racialization of Hurricane Katrina needs to be situated within the disciplinary practices of capital and its process of valorization through unsustainable capital-fueled growth and development, overproduction, resource depletion, and ecosystem destabilization and destruction.