Hurricane Katrina : America's unnatural disaster /

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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally. In an original combination of research and advocacy, Hurricane Katrina: Am...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levitt, Jeremy I., 1970-, Whitaker, Matthew C.
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Colección:Justice and social inquiry.
Temas:
2005
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Disaster relief > Louisiana > New Orleans.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions.
Social justice > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Noirs américains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Conditions sociales.
Justice sociale > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Social conditions
Disaster relief
Social justice
Katrina > Hurrikan
Louisiana > New Orleans
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Truth crushed to earth will rise again" : Katrina and its aftermath / Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker
  • Letters from a native son : do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? / Mitchell F. Crusto
  • After Katrina : laying bare the anatomy of American caste / Bryan K. Fair
  • Hurricane Katrina and the "market" for survival : the role of economic theory in the construction and maintenance of disaster / Charles R.P. Pouncy
  • Internal Revenue Code don't care about poor, black people / Andrew L. Smith
  • Judging under disaster : the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the criminal justice system / Phyllis Kotey
  • From worse to where? African Americans, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing public health crisis / Alyssa G. Robillard
  • Failed plans and planned failures : the Lower Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing story of environmental injustice / Carlton Waterhouse
  • "Still up on the roof" : race, victimology, and the response to Hurricane Katrina / Kenneth B. Nunn
  • Governmental liability for the Katrina failure / Linda S. Greene
  • Katrina, race, refugees, and images of the Third World / Ruth Gordon
  • "Been in the storm so long" : Katrina, reparations, and the original understanding of equal protection / D. Marvin Jones.

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