03839nam 2200673 a 450 991082834210332120240501023536.01-282-13089-797866121308920-8032-2463-X(CKB)1000000000764000(EBL)452141(OCoLC)370922865(SSID)ssj0000175340(PQKBManifestationID)11154379(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175340(PQKBWorkID)10190121(PQKB)11516048(MiAaPQ)EBC452141(MdBmJHUP)muse11912(Au-PeEL)EBL452141(CaPaEBR)ebr10312883(CaONFJC)MIL213089(EXLCZ)99100000000076400020081110d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHurricane Katrina America's unnatural disaster /edited, and with an introduction, by Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker1st ed.Lincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20091 online resource (323 p.)Justice and social inquiryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8032-1760-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-306) and index."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.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.Justice and social inquiry.Hurricane Katrina, 2005Disaster reliefLouisianaNew OrleansAfrican AmericansLouisianaNew OrleansSocial conditionsSocial justiceLouisianaNew OrleansHurricane Katrina, 2005.Disaster reliefAfrican AmericansSocial conditions.Social justice976/.044Levitt Jeremy I.1970-1619160Whitaker Matthew C1661709MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828342103321Hurricane Katrina4017813UNINA