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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kristin Ann Bates; Richelle S Swan |
| ISBN: | 9781594602887 1594602883 |
| OCLC Number: | 134992331 |
| Description: | xix, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Social justice in the face of the storm: when natural disasters become social disasters / Richelle S. Swan and Kristin A. Bates -- pt. 1. Images from the past: social justice and Hurricane Katrina in context -- Setting the stage: roots of social inequity and the human tragedy of Hurricane Katrina / DeMond S. Miller and Jason Rivera -- "Revolutions may go backwards": the persistence of voter disenfranchisement in the United States / Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen and Kristin A. Bates -- Locked and loaded: the prison industrial complex and the response to Hurricane Katrina / Shana Agid -- Social justice movements: education disregarded, lessons ignored / Richelle S. Swan -- Reminders of poverty, soon forgotten / Alexander Keyssar -- pt. 2. Images from the disaster: reactions to Hurricane Katrina -- New song, same old tune: racial discourse in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Ashley "Woody" Doane -- "Reasonable racism": the "new" white supremacy and Hurricane Katrina / Dreama G. Moon and Anthony Hurst -- Katrina's Latinos: vulnerability and disasters in relief and recovery / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- From invisibility to hypervisibility: the complexity of race, survival, and resiliency for the Vietnamese American community in eastern New Orleans / Karen J. Leong ... [et al.] -- Disaster pornography: Hurricane Katrina, voyeurism, and the television viewer / Benjamin R. Bates and Rukhsana Ahmed -- Access to mediated emergency messages: differences in crisis knowledge across age, race, and socioeconomic status / Kenneth Lachlan, Patric R. Spence, & Christine Eith -- Discrimination, segregation, and the racialized search for housing post-Katrina / Jeannie Haubert Weil -- The voices of Katrina: ethos, race, and congressional testimonials / Terence Check -- pt. 3. Images of the future: policy, activism, and justice -- George Bush does not care about black people: hip hop and the struggle for Katrina justice / David J. Leonard -- Ordinary struggle and the "public good": navigating vernacular voices, state power, and the public sphere in quests for social justice / Lisa R. Foster -- Human rights in disaster policy: improving the federal response to natural disasters, disease pandemics, and terrorist attacks / Hannibal Travis -- Hurricane Katrina and the nation's obligation to black colleges / Marybeth Gasman and Noah D. Drezner -- Social justice after Katrina: the need for a revitalized public sphere / Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare -- Whose city is it? Public housing, public sociology, and the struggle for social justice in New Orleans before and after Katrina / John D. Arena -- The disappearing neighborhood: an urban planner's tour of New Orleans / Kim Knowles-Yánez -- You can get there from here, but the road is long and hard: the intersection of social justice and social disasters post-Hurricane Katrina / Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kristin A. Bates, Richelle S. Swan. |
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Abstract:
The events surrounding Hurricane Katrina offer a remarkable case study of the continuing social divide in the United States. This book includes scholarly articles examining the continued struggle for social justice from the perspectives of communication, criminology, education, ethnic studies, history, justice studies, law, political science, and sociology. This multidisciplinary case study approach is a highly effective way of helping readers understand contemporary debates about social justice including the roles of historically persistent structural inequality, racism and classism, media portrayals of life changing events, government reactions and responsibilities in the face of crises, and the role of public policy and activism in response to social injustice.
The collection of articles is divided into three sections representing the causes of, consequences of, and responses to social injustice as illustrated through the case study of Hurricane Katrina. The first section, Images from the Past: Social Justice and Hurricane Katrina in Context examines the structural inequality and cultural divisions in the United States that make a just response to disaster difficult. The second section, Images of the Disaster: Reactions to Hurricane Katrina, offers analyses of the continuing struggle for social justice in the face of such an event as Hurricane Katrina. The third section, Images of the Future: Policy, Activism, and Justice, focuses on public policy and activism responses for a more just society.
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- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
- Social justice -- United States.
- Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- Marginality, Social -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- Poor -- Government policy -- United States.
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
- United States -- Race relations.
- Katastrophenmanagement.
- Rassendiskriminierung.
- Soziale Situation.
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- Soziale Gerechtigkeit.
- New Orleans <La.>
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