Certainly, the devastating symbolism of both the natural and, particularly, the human destruction of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina, brought into sharp relief the ongoing presence of racial prejudice and discrimination in social relations in the US South. After all, in the course of numerous days of hunger and thirst, of unambiguous abandonment and official indifference, the extent of the dispensability of poor African American and Latino/a citizen-victims of Katrina was forcefully and visibly highlighted for all Americans across the nation.