The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities

About the Authors

| 299 About the Authors Robert D. Bullard is Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston. He is author of many books, including The Black Metropolis in Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place; Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast; and Environmental Health and Racial Equity in the United States: Building Environmentally Just, Sustainable and Livable Communities. Beverly Wright is the founding director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) at Dillard University New Orleans and cochair of the National Black Environmental Justice Network and the Environmental Justice Climate Change (EJCC) Initiative. She is the author of many books, including In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina; Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987–2007; and Race, Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. She is a native of New Orleans and a survivor of Hurricane Katrina. ...