There is no such thing as a natural disaster : race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Chester W Hartman; Gregory D Squires
- ناشر : New York : Routledge
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2006
- شابک / ISBN : 9780415954860
Description
Foreword / Mary Frances Berry -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Pre-Katrina, post-Katrina / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires -- 2. A matter of choice : historical lessons for disaster recovery / Michael P. Powers -- 3. Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss -- 4. Towards a transformative view of race : the crisis and opportunity of Katrina / John A. Powell, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Daniel W. Newhart, and Eric Stiens -- 5. Abandoned before the storms : the glaring disaster of gender, race, and class disparities in the Gulf / Avis W. Jones-DeWeever and Heidi Hartmann -- 6. Katrina and the politics of later life / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- 7. Where is home? Housing for low-income people after the 2005 hurricanes / Sheila Crowley -- 8. Reclaiming New Orleans' working-class communities / Robert O. Zdenek, Ralph Scott, Jane Malone, and Brian Gumm -- 9. A new kind of medical disaster in the United States / Evangeline (Vangy) Franklin -- 10. Double jeopardy : public education in New Orleans before and after the storm / Michael Casserly -- 11. An old economy for the "new" New Orleans? Post-Hurricane Katrina economic development efforts / Robert K. Whelan -- 12. From poverty to prosperity : the critical role of financial institutions / John Taylor and Josh Silver -- 13. The role of local organizing : house-to-house with boots on the ground / Wade Rathke and Beulah Laboistrie -- 14. Rebuilding a tortured past or creating a model future : the limits and potentials of planning / Peter
Shows the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. This work covers the response to the disaster and the roles that race and class played, its impact on housing and redevelopment, the historical context of urban disasters in America and the future of economic development in the region.
