After the Storm
Subtitle: Militarization, Occupation, and Segregation in Post-Katrina America
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781440851643
Subjects: African americans, social conditions; Hurricane katrina, 2005; Southern states, race relations; African americans, segregation; Community life
Description: After the Storm uses Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of the natural disaster as a point of departure for understanding enduring racial divides in asset ownership, academic achievement, educational attainment, and mass incarceration in New Orleans and beyond. The book explores the many specific aspects of the widespread problem and considers how to move toward achieving a state where all can thrive. Readers will better appreciate the key roles of race, inequality, education, occupation, and militarization in understanding the failures in the responses to this disaster and grasp how institutionalized inequality continues to plague our nation.