Post-Katrina builders bypassed local Black laborers for more easily controlled imported workers

Evidence

Instead of hiring local African American working class laborers, for instance, companies outsourced the work to immigrant and domestic laborers of color from Asian and Latin American countries and from American Indian reservations. These workers were chosen because of their assumed docility and legal and socioeconomic vulnerability; they were thus easy to manage using the colonial strategy of divide and rule. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 896

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes the book’s earlier thesis about colonial divide-and-rule as a governance technology extended to labor markets; also connects to ADDENDUM on sacrifice/stratification themes of governing through division. — connects to: Post-Katrina rebuilding prioritized wealthier whiter neighborhoods over poor black areas — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 141; Black flood victims were forcibly confined and worked while white victims were evacuated — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 135