Cheryl I. Harristt INTRODUCTION The images of the suffering that washed over New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina seemed to provide incontrovertible evidence of the significance of race and persistence of racial inequality in contemporary U.S. society.' The simple fact that the faces of those left to fend for
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