Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell Viking, 2010 (paper)
Rebecca Solnit, "When the Media is the Disaster: Covering Haiti" Huffington Post
A.C. Thompson, "Katrina's Hidden Race War" The Nation
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Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina touched down on the Gulf Coast. What followed was a very human-made disaster, whipped up by a media that favored hype over accuracy. Yet it was also a moment of human-created solidarity and mutual aid. Award-winning writer Rebecca Solnit speaks about how disasters can make us step out of the isolation and fragmentation of our daily lives and give us a glimpse at how a society based on collectivity might look.