Through the eye of Katrina:social justice in the United States
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Carolina Academic Press,
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Publisher Address: | Durham, N.C. |
Publication Dates: | c2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xix, 420 p.: ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781594602887 (pbk.) 1594602883 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | X437 |
CLC: | X437.12 |
Call Number: | X437.12/T531 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Social justice in the face of the storm: when natural disasters become social disasters / Richelle S. Swan and Kristin A. Bates -- 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... |