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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 Figures 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction: "Truth Crushed to Earth Will Rise Again": Katrina and Its Aftermath 14 1. Letters from a Native Son: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 36 2. After Katrina: Laying Bare the Anatomy of American Caste 48 3. Hurricane Katrina and the "Market" for Survival: The Role of Economic Theory in the Construction and Maintenance of Disaster 63 4. The Internal Revenue Code Don't Care about Poor, Black People 94 5. Judging under Disaster: The Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Criminal Justice System 118 6. From Worse to Where?: African Americans, Hurricane Katrina, and the Continuing Public Health Crisis 145 7. Failed Plans and Planned Failures: The Lower Ninth Ward, Hurricane Katrina, and the Continuing Story of Environmental Injustice 169 8. "Still Up on the Roof": Race, Victimology, and the Response to Hurricane Katrina 196 9. Governmental Liability for the Katrina Failure 219 10. Katrina, Race, Refugees, and Images of the Third World 239 11. "Been in the Storm So Long": Katrina, Reparations, and the Original Understanding of Equal Protection 268 Epilogue 290 Bibliography 294 Contributors 320 Index 326 Pu

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Author

Levitt, Jeremy I.;Whitaker, Matthew C

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612130892

Category

nonfiction