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

• Superior document: Justice and social inquiry
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Levitt, Jeremy I., 1970-; Whitaker, Matthew C.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Ano de Publicação: 2009
• Idioma: English
• coleção: Justice and social inquiry.
• Descrição Física: xii, 324 p. :; ill.
• Other title: "Truth crushed to earth will rise again" : Katrina and its aftermath /; Letters from a native son : do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? /; After Katrina : laying bare the anatomy of American caste /; Hurricane Katrina and the "market" for survival : the role of economic theory in the construction and maintenance of disaster /; The Internal Revenue Code don't care about poor, black people /; Judging under disaster : the effect of Hurricane Katrina on the criminal justice system /; From worse to where? African Americans, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing public health crisis /; Failed plans and planned failures : the Lower Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, and the continuing story of environmental injustice /; "Still up on the roof" : race, victimology, and the response to Hurricane Katrina /; Governmental liability for the Katrina failure /; Katrina, race, refugees, and images of the Third World /; "Been in the storm so long" : Katrina, reparations, and the original understanding of equal protection /
• Bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-306) and index.
• ISBN: 9780803217607 (cloth : alk. paper); 0803217609 (cloth : alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited, and with an introduction, by Jeremy I. Levitt and Matthew C. Whitaker.