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There is no such thing as a natural disaster : race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
- Title
- There is no such thing as a natural disaster : race, class, and Hurricane Katrina / edited by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- ix, 311 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects
- Services sociaux > États du Golfe (États-Unis)
- Marginaux > États du Golfe (États-Unis)
- Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Aspect social > États du Golfe (États-Unis)
- People with social disabilities > Government policy > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Services sociaux > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Ouragan Katrina, 2005 > Aspect social
- Handicapés sociaux > Politique gouvernementale > États du Golfe (États-Unis)
- Handicapés sociaux > Politique gouvernementale > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Hurricane Rita, 2005 > Social aspects
- Human services > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Marginaux > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Human services > Gulf States
- Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Aspect social > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans
- Disaster relief > Social aspects > Gulf States
- People with social disabilities > Government policy > Gulf States
- Disaster relief > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Marginality, Social > Gulf States
- Marginality, Social > Louisiana > New Orleans
- Ouragan Rita, 2005 > Aspect social
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Pre-Katrina, post-Katrina / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires -- 2. A matter of choice : historical lessons for disaster recovery / Michael P. Powers -- 3. Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss -- 4. Towards a transformative view of race : the crisis and opportunity of Katrina / John A. Powell, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Daniel W. Newhart and Eric Stiens -- 5. Abandoned before the storms : the glaring disaster of gender, race, and class disparities in the Gulf / Avis A. Jones-DeWeever and Heidi Hartmann -- 6. Katrina and the politics of later life / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- 7. Where is home? : housing for low-income people after the 2005 hurricanes / Sheila Crowley -- 8. Reclaiming New Orleans' working-class communities / Robert O. Zdenek, Ralph Scott, Jane Malone and Brian Gumm -- 9. A new kind of medical disaster in the United States / Evangeline (Vangy) Franklin -- 10. Double jeopardy : public education in New Orleans before and after the storm / Michael Casserly -- 11. An old economy for the "new" New Orleans? : post-hurricane Katrina economic development efforts / Robert K. Whelan -- 12. From poverty to prosperity : the critical role of financial institutions / John Taylor and Josh Silver -- 13. The role of local organizing : house-to-house with boots on the ground / Wade Rathke and Beulah Laboistrie -- 14. Rebuilding a tortured past or creating a model future : the limits and potentials of planning / Peter Marcuse.
- ISBN
- 041595486X (hb)
- 9780415954860 (hb)
- 0415954878 (pb)
- 9780415954877 (pb)
- LCCN
- 2006023824
- OCLC
- ocm70718285
- 70718285
- SCSB-9252800
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries