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Recovering inequality : Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the aftermath of disaster / Steve Kroll-Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Katrina bookshelf
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster relief--Social aspects.
- Disaster relief.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- California.
- Emergency management--United States.
- Emergency management.
- Disaster relief--Social aspects--United States.
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Social aspects.
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906--Social aspects.
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. An introduction
- "The earth dragon" and "miss Katrina"
- Geographies of inequality : a sketch of two cities spanning a century
- pt. 2. Deranging and rekindling
- The great derangements
- Fashioning "the looter" : rekindling racial and class kinds
- pt. 3. Rebooting inequality, the road to recovery
- Disaster relief : parsing the vernaculars of worthiness
- Spatial accumulation by dispossession : two attempts to rob the marginal
- One city necessary, one city expendable.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781477316108
- 1477316108
- 9781477316115
- 1477316116
- OCLC:
- 1002211693
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