Through the eye of Katrina
Subtitle: social justice in the United States
By: [edited] by Kristin A. Bates, Richelle S. Swan.
Contributors: Bates, Kristin Ann.; Swan, Richelle S.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594602887
Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects; Social justice -- United States; Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Marginality, Social -- Lousiana -- New Orleans; Poor -- Government policy -- United States; New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Social justice in the face of the storm: when natural disasters become social disasters / Richelle S. Swan & Kristin A. Bates; title: Images from the past: social justice and Hurricane Katrina in context; title: Setting the stage: roots of social inequity and the human tragedy of Hurricane Katrina / DeMond S. Miller & Jason Rivera; title: "Revolutions may go backwards": the persistence of voter disenfranchisement in the United States / Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen,& Kristin A. Bates; title: Locked and loaded: the prison industrial complex and the response to Hurricane Katrina / Shana Agid; title: Social justice movements: education disregarded, lessons ignored / Richelle S. Swan; title: Reminders of poverty, soon forgotten / Alexander Keyssar; title: Images from the disaster: reactions to Hurricane Katrina; title: New song, same old tune: racial discourse in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Ashley "Woody" Doane; title: "Reasonable racism": the "new" white supremacy and Hurricane Katrina / Dreama G. Moon & Anthony Hurst; title: Katrina's Latinos: what natural events tell us about social disasters among New Orleans' Latinos / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán; title: From invisibility to hypervisibility: the complexity of race, survival, and resiliency for the Vietnamese American community in eastern New Orleans / Karen J. Leong, Christopher Airriess, Angela Chia-chen Chen, Verna Keith, Wei Li, Ying Wang, & Karen Adams; title: Disaster pornography: hurricanes, voyeurism, and the television viewer / Benjamin R. Bates & Rukhsana Ahmed; title: Access to mediated emergency messages: differences in crisis knowledge across age, race, and socioeconomic status / Kenneth Lachlan, Patric R. Spence, & Christine Eith; title: Discrimination, segregation, and the racialized search for housing post-Katrina / Jeannie Haubert Weil; title: The voices of Katrina: ethos, race, and congressional testimony / Terence Check; title: Images of the future: policy, activism, and justice; title: George Bush does not care about black people: hip hop and the struggle for Katrina justice / David J. Leonard; title: Ordinary struggle and the "public good": navigating vernacular voices, state power, and the public sphere in quests for social justice / Lisa R. Foster; title: Human rights in disaster policy: improving the federal response to natural disasters, disease pandemics, and terrorist attacks / Hannibal Travis; title: Hurricane Katrina and the nation's obligation to black colleges / Marybeth Gasman & Noah D. Drezner; title: Social justice after Katrina: the need for a revitalized public sphere / Peter G. Stillman & Adelaide H. Villmoare; title: Whose city is it? Public housing, public sociology, and the struggle for social justice in New Orleans before and after Katrina / John D. Arena; title: 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 & Richelle S. Swan.