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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777967703321

Titolo

Hurricane Katrina [[electronic resource] ] : America's unnatural disaster / / edited, and with an introduction, by Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-13089-7

9786612130892

0-8032-2463-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Justice and social inquiry

Altri autori (Persone)

LevittJeremy I. <1970->

WhitakerMatthew C

Disciplina

976/.044

Soggetti

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Disaster relief - Louisiana - New Orleans

African Americans - Louisiana - New Orleans - Social conditions

Social justice - Louisiana - New Orleans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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 -- The 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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: America's Unnatural Disaster questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina's central victims, African Americans.