American response to New Orleans was viewed through an exceedingly narrow lens. White America was shocked. Black responses were embedded within an understanding of what social theorists call structural racism.
Evacuation for upper/middle-income residents was straightforward: get a hotel room, visit out-of-town friends/family, pack the car, grab cash...Low-income residents had fewer options: no cash, no vehicles, no out-of-town social networks...
A month ago, the military banned MySpace but not Facebook. This was a very interesting move because the division in the military reflects the division in high schools. Soldiers are on MySpace; officers are on Facebook.
There is a rich literature on denial of atrocities including most notably the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. (Cohen, Stan, States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering, London, Polity, 2001).
We...live inside a matrix...[its] hegemonic power...only strengthened since [911]. Lies...repeated until... accepted as truth...by a bloated, myopic...bureaucracy...stench of pork is everywhere...
People say they are surprised to see the U.S. looking so "Third World." [Their] surprise is often deep and very genuine. This is...troubling. The research exists...Is there little or no audience?