| Description |
xix, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Social justice in the face of the storm: when natural disasters become social disasters / Richelle S. Swan and Kristin A. Bates -- Images from the past: social justice and Hurricane Katrina in context -- Setting the stage: roots of social inequity and the human tragedy of Hurricane Katrina / DeMond S. Miller and Jason Rivera -- "Revolutions may go backwards": the persistence of voter disenfranchisement in the United States / Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen and Kristin A. Bates -- Locked and loaded: the prison industrial complex and the response to Hurricane Katrina / Shana Agid -- Social justice movements: education disregarded, lessons ignored / Richelle S. Swan -- Reminders of poverty, soon forgotten / Alexander Keyssar -- Images from the disaster: reactions to Hurricane Katrina -- New song, same old tune: racial discourse in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Ashley "Woody" Doane -- "Reasonable racism": the "new" white supremacy and Hurricane Katrina / Dreama G. Moon and Anthony Hurst -- Katrina's Latinos: vulnerability and disasters in relief and recovery / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- From invisibility to hypervisibility: the complexity of race, survival, and resiliency for the Vietnamese American community in eastern New Orleans / Karen J. Leong ... [et al.] -- Disaster pornography: Hurricane Katrina, voyeurism, and the television viewer / Benjamin R. Bates and Rukhsana Ahmed -- Access to mediated emergency messages: differences in crisis knowledge across age, race, and socioeconomic status / Kenneth Lachlan, Patric R. Spence, & Christine Eith -- Discrimination, segregation, and the racialized search for housing post-Katrina / Jeannie Haubert Weil -- The voices of Katrina: ethos, race, and congressional testimonials / Terence Check -- Images of the future: policy, activism, and justice -- George Bush does not care about black people: hip hop and the struggle for Katrina justice / David J. Leonard -- Ordinary struggle and the "public good": navigating vernacular voices, state power, and the public sphere in quests for social justice / Lisa R. Foster -- Human rights in disaster policy: improving the federal response to natural disasters, disease pandemics, and terrorist attacks / Hannibal Travis -- Hurricane Katrina and the nation's obligation to black colleges / Marybeth Gasman and Noah D. Drezner -- Social justice after Katrina: the need for a revitalized public sphere / Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare -- Whose city is it? Public housing, public sociology, and the struggle for social justice in New Orleans before and after Katrina / John D. Arena -- The disappearing neighborhood: an urban planner's tour of New Orleans / Kim Knowles-Yánez -- You can get there from here, but the road is long and hard: the intersection of social justice and social disasters post-Hurricane Katrina / Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan. |
| Subject |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
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Hurricane Katrina (2005) |
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Social aspects. |
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Social justice -- United States.
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Social justice. |
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United States. |
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Disaster relief -- Social aspects. |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Disaster relief. |
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Marginality, Social -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Marginality, Social. |
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Poor -- Government policy -- United States.
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Poor -- Government policy. |
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New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Added Author |
Bates, Kristin Ann.
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Swan, Richelle S.
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| ISBN |
9781594602887 paperback |
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1594602883 paperback |
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