There is no such thing as a natural disaster : race, class, and Hurricane Katrina / edited by Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hartman, Chester W.
Squires, Gregory D.
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects.
Hurricane Rita, 2005 > Social aspects.
Disaster relief > Social aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Disaster relief > Social aspects > Gulf States.
Marginality, Social > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Marginality, Social > Gulf States.
People with social disabilities > Government policy > Louisiana > New Orleans.
People with social disabilities > Government policy > Gulf States.
Human services > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Human services > Gulf States.
Physical Description:ix, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Pre-Katrina, post-Katrina / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires
  • A matter of choice: historical lessons for disaster recovery / Michael P. Powers
  • Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss
  • Towards a transformative view of race: the crisis and opportunity of Katrina / John A. Powell ... [et al.]
  • Abandoned before the storms: the glaring disaster of gender, race, and class disparities in the Gulf / Avis W. Jones-DeWeever and Heidi Hartmann
  • Katrina and the politics of later life / Margaret Morganroth Gullette
  • Where is home? Housing for low-income people after the 2005 hurricanes / Sheila Crowley
  • Reclaiming New Orleans' working-class communities / Robert O. Zdenek ... [et al.]
  • A new kind of medical disaster in the United States / Evangeline (Vangy) Franklin
  • Double jeopardy: public education in New Orleans before and after the storm / Michael Casserly
  • An old economy for the "new" New Orleans? Post-Hurricane Katrina economic development efforts / Robert K. Whelan
  • From poverty to prosperity: the critical role of financial institutions / John Taylor and Josh Silver
  • The role of local organizing: house-to-house with boots on the ground / Wade Rathke and Beulah Laboistrie
  • Rebuilding a tortured past or creating a model future: the limits and potentials of planning / Peter Marcuse.