In 2009, the University of Nebraska Press published Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster,  which questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina’s central victims, African Americans. This collection of essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were — and are — disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina.

 
One of the book's editors, Dr. Matthew Whittaker (also a historian at Arizona State University) spoke at A Conversation with Cornel West – How We Got Here on Oct. 2. He spoke about the Arizona immigration law and the history of immigration in the United States. Whittaker quoted Mark Twain in saying, “History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes.” Watch the video clip below: