We plan to market this book very widely in progressive print and web media (The Nation, The Progressive, In These Times, etc.). The author is a well-known activist and the book will be sold at many activist fairs and events, as well as at relevant academic conferences and venues, on listserves and websites, and directly to the communities affected by the events covered in the book.

A first-hand account of community, culture and resistance in New Orleans, from gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, Latino immigrants and grassroots activists in the years before and after Hurricane Katrina. From post-Katrina evacuee camps to torture testimony at Angola Prison and the Jena Six, a group of black teenagers at the centre of a race row, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines from an unforgettable time and place in history.