Katrina laid bare that neoliberalism and segregation jointly structure urban space

Evidence

So post-Katrina New Orleans has simply made bare for all to see what neoliberalizing America amounts to. The impact of redlining can be found etched into the urban landscape of contemporary New Orleans. The Lower Ninth Ward is neither mistake nor oversight. Its destruction by Katrina and its burial by FEMA were as surely the outcome of neoliberal privatization as its neglected condition was a product of the history of redlining, of the segregating racial state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 440

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier 1910 National Urban League call and to the broader racial-neoliberalism project Goldberg is building across the book; also echoes the ‘New Orleans gentrification as displacement’ research in the literature of Racial Formation.