Hurricane Katrina : America's unnatural disaster / edited, and with an introduction, by Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker.
| Uniform Title: | Justice and social inquiry.
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| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2009], ©2009.
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| Series: | Justice and social inquiry.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
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.