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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Disaster relief--New Orleans.--New Orleans.
African Americans--New Orleans--New Orleans--Social conditions.
Social justice--New Orleans.--New Orleans.

Other Authors:

Levitt, Jeremy I., 1970-
Whitaker, Matthew C.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-306) and index.

Contents:

"Been in the storm so long" : Katrina, reparations, and the original understanding of equal protection / D. Marvin Jones. 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 / Andre 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.

Series:

Justice and social inquiry

ISBN:

0803217609 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803217607 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)268789835

LCCN:

2008045278

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)