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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levitt, Jeremy I., 1970-

Whitaker, Matthew C.

Series:

Justice and social inquiry.

Justice and social inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Disaster relief--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Disaster relief.

African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Social justice--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612130892

9781282130890

1282130897

9780803224636

080322463X

OCLC:

370922865