There Is No Such Thing As a Natural Disaster Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina

Name: There Is No Such Thing As a Natural Disaster Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina
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ISBN: 9780415954877

ISBN-10: 0415954878

ISBN-13: 9780415954877

Edition: 2007

Authors: Chester Hartman, Gregory Squires

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There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disasteris the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government's generally inept and cavalier response. But it's also a huge story for other obvious reasons. Firstly, the impact of the hurricane was uneven, and race and class (and tied to this, poverty) were deeply implicated in the unevenness. It was not by accident that the poorest and blackest neighborhoods were the ones that were buried under water. Secondly, the response underscored the impoverishment of social policy (or what passes for it) in…

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List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword: Mary Frances Berry, Dept. of History, Univ. of Pennsylvania, former Chair, US Commission on Civil Rights



"Pre-Katrina, Post-Katrina"



Poverty & Race Research Action Council




"A Matter of Choice: Historical Lessons for Disaster Recovery"




"Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina"




"Towards a Transformative View of Race: The Crisis and Opportunit