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Katrina Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Race does matter in the caustic caldron of the post-Katrina era—the world still perceives us as “refugees”—permanently scarred victims to be forever adrift in tragedy

By Laura S. Washington

History is written by the powerful and the articulate. Chris Rose, a columnist for New Orleans’ Times-Picayune, has painted a powerful and articulate historical landscape in his book 1 Dead in Attic. His canvas is post-Katrina New Orleans. His palette is the absurdities and horrors of a town with its entrails splattered on the sidewalk in the midst of a… return to article

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