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Left behind

Class, race, and Katrina

September 2, 2005 |

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In Slate, Jack Shafer talks about class, race, and the Gulf Coast evacuation.

August Pollack offers a crash course in moral imagination for those who can't imagine why anyone couldn't or wouldn't evacuate.

A New Orleans resident blogging on a generator interviews a resident about the view of the disaster from the Iberville Projects.

Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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