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Come Hell or high water : Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster / Michael Eric Dyson.
Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) F379.N5 D97 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyson, Michael Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Floods--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Floods.
- Emergency management--Political aspects--United States.
- Emergency management.
- African Americans.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 258 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Civitas, [2006]
- Summary:
- Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim, Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. He warns that society must acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering or emergency response failure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465017614
- OCLC:
- 63188855
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