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In the years that have passed since Hurricane Katrina, the authorities in New Orleans have been quietly doing away with the city’s remaining stock of affordable housing through measures characterized by the United Nations as violations of human rights. The demolition of public housing in New Orleans has prevented large numbers of very poor and mostly black residents from returning home, and it seems likely that for many, this displacement will be permanent.
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See, for example, Costas Douzinas, The End of Human Rights: Critical Legal Thought at the Turn of the Century (Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2000).
See, for example, Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (London and New York: Verso, 1993).
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Hartnell, A. (2011). Domesticating Katrina: Eliding the International Coordinates of a ‘Natural’ Disaster. In: Sewell, B., Lucas, S. (eds) Challenging US Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349209_13
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