For a meticulously researched, in-depth view of the relationship between Desire and the Black Panthers...

Showdown in Desire by Orissa Arend

 For a broader look at police brutality in New Orleans...

Black Rage in New Orleans by Leonard Moore

For a varied series of stories about New Orleans, including a section about the

Desire residents who refused to be evicted in the early 2000's...

Letters from New Orleans by Rob Walker

For a thorough look at the role of racism in the disaster of Katrina... 

Come Hell or High Water by Michael Eric Dyson

For a critique of nonprofits and privatization in New Orleans...

Driven From New Orleans by John Arena

For an in-depth analysis of lessons that can be learned from Hurrican Katrina...

Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster by Eugenie                                                 Birch and Susan Wachter

For Post-Katrina analysis from an environmental justice perspective...

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina by Rober Bullard and Beverly                                                                                  Wright

For a harrowing account of Hurricane Betsy...

Riding the Nightmare Express by Elizabeth and                                                             Walter Rogers [pdf]

For analysis about HOPE VI projects around the country... 

An Historical and Baseline Assessment of HOPE VI                                                                                       [pdf]

For research about how historical resistance and structural violence create

different ways for displaced residents to reconnect with the city...

Putting the Ninth Ward on the Map by Rachel                                                                    Breunilin [pdf]