"Development Drowned and Reborn is a 'Blues geography' of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance."

Globe Book Award, Association of American Geographers (2018)

University of Georgia Press, 396 pages