Race and the hurricane

In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush acknowledged that the disaster laid bare the persistent racial inequalities in America, but Bush strongly rejected the idea that the federal government's response to Katrina was somehow racist. Social critic Michael Eric Dyson was not convinced.

Guests

• Michael Eric Dyson: Professor of humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, in the keynote address of The Blake School's annual Diversity Symposium on May 3 in Minneapolis. Dyson's latest book is "Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster."

More from MPR

• The journalistic response to Hurricane Katrina
  April 24, 2006
• Carleton College devotes a day to Katrina
  March 31, 2006
• Commentator Jonathan Odell: How the races don't relate
  October 13, 2005
• Healing a grieving nation
  September 19, 2005
• Katrina puts spotlight on poverty
  September 19, 2005
• Listeners to react to the debate over 'refugee'
  September 12, 2005
• President denies racial component to Katrina response
  September 12, 2005
• Minnesota singer T. Mychael Rambo objects to calling Katrina victims 'refugees'
  September 9, 2005
• Amid images of black victims, many ask: Was race a factor?
  September 3, 2005
• President Bush speaks to nation in wake of Katrina disaster
  August 31, 2005
• Dyson's critique of Bill Cosby
  August 16, 2005
• Cosby defends his remarks
  August 15, 2005

Resources

• Dyson's official Web site
• The Blake School