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Seeking Higher Ground : The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader / edited by M. Marable.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical Black Studies, 2945-7424
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race.
- African Americans.
- Culture.
- Environmental sciences--Social aspects.
- Environmental sciences.
- Human rights.
- Political planning.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- African American Culture.
- Environmental Social Sciences.
- Human Rights.
- Public Policy.
- Local Subjects:
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- African American Culture.
- Environmental Social Sciences.
- Human Rights.
- Public Policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2008.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America. In this powerful reader, Seeking Higher Ground, prominent scholars and writers examine the racial impact of the disaster and the failure of governmental, corporate and private agencies to respond to the plight of the New Orleans black community. Contributing authors include Julianne Malveaux, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Ronald Walters, Chester Hartman, Gregory D. Squires, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Alan Stein, and Gene Preuss. This reader is the second volume of the Souls Critical Black Studies Series, edited by Manning Marable, and produced by the institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Seeking Higher Ground: Race, Public Policy and the Hurricane Katrina Crisis; I. Politics and Place; II. Culture, Tradition, and Identity; III. Race and Repression; IV. Reimagining the Past and Reconstructing the Future; About the Authors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611915568
- 9781281915566
- 1281915564
- 9780230610095
- 0230610099
- OCLC:
- 314766444
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