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Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is a professor of economics and a novelist, who can be reached at [email protected] or his website.

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Commentary

The Political Wrath of Hurricane Katrina

By Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Like most people in the United States, I have been transfixed by the horrific images of the death and destruction wrought by hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The proud city of New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz and so much of what is original in American popular culture, stands deluged in a combustible…

Like most people in the United States, I have been transfixed by the horrific images of the death and destruction wrought by hurricane Katrina on the…

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