Hurricane Katrina [electronic resource] : America's unnatural disaster / edited, and with an introduction, by Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker.

Contributor(s): Levitt, Jeremy I, 1970- | Whitaker, Matthew C | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Justice and social inquiryPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009Description: xii, 324 p. : illSubject(s): Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | Disaster relief -- Louisiana -- New Orleans | African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions | Social justice -- Louisiana -- New OrleansGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 976/.044 LOC classification: HV636 2005.N4 | H87 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again" : Katrina and its aftermath / Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker -- Letters from a native son : do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? / Mitchell F. Crusto -- After Katrina : laying bare the anatomy of American caste / Bryan K. Fair -- Hurricane Katrina and the "market" for survival : the role of economic theory in the construction and maintenance of disaster / Charles R. P. Pouncy -- The Internal Revenue Code don't care about poor, black people / Andrew L. Smith -- Judging under disaster : the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the criminal justice system / Phyllis Kotey -- From worse to where? African Americans, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing public health crisis / Alyssa G. Robillard -- Failed plans and planned failures : the Lower Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing story of environmental injustice / Carlton Waterhouse -- "Still up on the roof" : race, victimology, and the response to Hurricane Katrina / Kenneth B. Nunn -- Governmental liability for the Katrina failure / Linda S. Greene -- Katrina, race, refugees, and images of the Third World / Ruth Gordon -- "Been in the storm so long" : Katrina, reparations, and the original understanding of equal protection / D. Marvin Jones.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-306) and index.

"Truth crushed to earth will rise again" : Katrina and its aftermath / Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker -- Letters from a native son : do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? / Mitchell F. Crusto -- After Katrina : laying bare the anatomy of American caste / Bryan K. Fair -- Hurricane Katrina and the "market" for survival : the role of economic theory in the construction and maintenance of disaster / Charles R. P. Pouncy -- The Internal Revenue Code don't care about poor, black people / Andrew L. Smith -- Judging under disaster : the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the criminal justice system / Phyllis Kotey -- From worse to where? African Americans, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing public health crisis / Alyssa G. Robillard -- Failed plans and planned failures : the Lower Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing story of environmental injustice / Carlton Waterhouse -- "Still up on the roof" : race, victimology, and the response to Hurricane Katrina / Kenneth B. Nunn -- Governmental liability for the Katrina failure / Linda S. Greene -- Katrina, race, refugees, and images of the Third World / Ruth Gordon -- "Been in the storm so long" : Katrina, reparations, and the original understanding of equal protection / D. Marvin Jones.

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