ABSTRACT
A fundamental practice of expanding the boundaries of Black politics requires that we continue to read literatures and use methods beyond those conventionally used in the discipline of political science. Southern political history has been examined as the flowering of a powerful Black religious philosophy, the most important site for examining the economic limits of the civil rights movements, as well as developing very sophisticated and advanced means for undermining White supremacy. Among the many works on Hurricane Katrina, Historical Inevitability: The Role of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans Saga clearly presents the call for new histories, social theories, and public policies. The systematic, political, economic, and institutional failures and fault lines that defined the Katrina tragedy revealed a profound intellectual crisis present throughout the disciplines. Gooding-Williams' In the Shadow of Du Bois brings into light the brilliant political savvy of one the most venerated scholars in American history.
