New Book: We Shall Not Be Moved
Posted by on November 19, 2012
Some of Us Shall Not Be Moved
We Shall Not Be Moved, by Tom Wooten. Beacon Press, 2012.
Reviewed by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
We Shall Not Be Moved is framed as the story of New Orleans’s rebuilding through the lens of five distinct neighborhoods-Broadmoor, Hollygrove, Holy Cross/the Lower Ninth Ward, Lakeview, and Village de l’Est. Fundamentally the book is a story of resilience, of the ability of communities to come together and create successful neighborhood-based planning initiatives when many thought these places couldn’t (or shouldn’t) return. While the stories collected from various residents by Wooten are indeed valuable and at times moving, there are questions about whom Wooten chose to tell the story of the city’s rebuilding.
http://www.shelterforce.org/article/2931/some_of_us_shall_not_be_moved/
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