Through the eye of Katrina:social justice in the United States

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Bates Kristin Ann.; Swan Richelle S.
Published: Carolina Academic Press,
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...