| Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Contributor(s): D. Bullard, Robert (Author), Wright, Beverly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813344247 ISBN-13: 9780813344249 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: Analyzing the immediate and long-term repercussions of Hurricane Katrina, these essays expose the racial disparities that exist in disaster response and recovery and challenge the geography of vulnerability |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 976.335 |
| LCCN: 2008044517 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 314 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some 'temporary' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike. |