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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina - 9780813344249

Un libro in lingua di Bullard Robert D. (EDT) Wright Beverly Ph.D. (EDT) edito da Westview Pr, 2009

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Bullard (sociology, Clark Atlanta U.) and Wright (sociology, Dillard U.) present 12 chapters exploring the geography of vulnerability and reconstruction in pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, particularly focusing on disparities of race and class. Following a broad overview by the co-editors of the politics of race and place in New Orleans as it relates to questions of pollution, rebuilding, redevelopment, environmental hazards, and public health in pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans, chapters discuss the role of law in the construction of geographic disparities of race and class; transportation apartheid and its daily economic effects and its role in creating disparities in the effects of natural and human-induced disasters, unequal recovery policies and its impact on black New Orleans, environmental health threats and injustices before and after the storm, health disparities and their causes, corporate profiteering in post-Katrina contracts, the choices and challenges of economic development and rebuilding policies in relation to race, the pre- and post-storm status of residential housing in the predominantly black Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, and patterns of displacement after the storm and the impact of public policy on the recovery process. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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