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For Reading, Reading, Reading:  An Incomplete Clyde Woods Bibliography

Symposium on Clyde Woods’s Development Arrested in the Journal of Planning History, 3:3, (August 2004):  241-260 (with Alison Isenberg, Charles Connerly, George Lipsitz, Bobby Wilson, June Thomas, and Clyde Woods).

Clyde Woods.  Development Arrested: Race, Power, and the Blues in the Mississippi Delta.  London and New York:  Verso, 1998.

Clyde Woods.  Development Arrested: From the Plantation Era to the Katrina Crisis in the Mississippi Delta (New Edition).  New York and London:  Verso, 2012. 

Clyde Woods, ed.  In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions—A Special Issue of American Quarterly, 61:3, (September 2009). 

Clyde Woods.  “Katrina’s World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source,” American Quarterly, 61: 3, (September 2009):  427-453.

Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds., Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto:  Between the Lines Press and Cambridge, MA:  South End Press, 2007.

Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods.  “Introduction:  ‘No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of The Ocean.’ Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds., Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto:  Between the Lines Press and Cambridge, MA:  South End Press, 2007:  1-13.

Clyde Woods.  “ ‘Sittin’ On Top of the World’:  The Challenges of Blues and Hip Hop Geography,” in Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds., Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto:  Between the Lines Press; Cambridge, MA:  South End Press, 2007:  46-81.

 Clyde Woods.  “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?: Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues.”  American Quarterly.  57:4, (December 2005):  1005-1018.

Clyde Woods.  ‘Life After Death.’  The Professional Geographer, 54:1, (2002):  62-66. 

Clyde Woods.  “Regional Blocs, Regional Planning and the Blues Epistemology in the Lower Mississippi Delta,” in Leonie Sandercok, ed.,Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1998:  78-99.  

"the crate of bones I’ve become, good/I was waiting to throw my limbs on the pile,/the mounds of disarticulated femurs and radii/but perhaps we were always lying there,/dead on our feet and recyclable,/toxic and imperishable, the ways to see us"

Dionne Brand, Ossuaries, 2010.