The New Slum Dwellers

Cook, Brian, In These Times

It's tempting to call Mike Davis, a history professor at University of California at Irvine, a modern-day seer. His first book, City of Quartz, published in 1991, essentially predicted the L.A. riots, along with other, less dramatic phenomena of the '90s, such as the exploding prison population and the rise of gated communities. "Poor, Black and Left Behind," a 2004 article he wrote for TomDispatch.com after Hurricane Ivan narrowly missed New Orleans, reads eerily prescient in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Seeing as the United States has done little to address the concerns he laid out in his last book, The Monster at Our Door, about an avian flu epidemic, we can only hope that, this …

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Publication information: Article title: The New Slum Dwellers. Contributors: Cook, Brian - Author. Magazine title: In These Times. Volume: 30. Issue: 5 Publication date: May 2006. Page number: 36+. © Institute for Public Affairs, Inc. Mar 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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