After the storm : militarization, occupation, and segregation in post-Katrina America /
After the Storm uses Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of the natural disaster as a point of departure for understanding enduring racial divides in asset ownership, academic achievement, educational attainment, and mass incarceration in New Orleans and beyond. The book explores the many specific a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
[2016]
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| Summary: | After the Storm uses Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of the natural disaster as a point of departure for understanding enduring racial divides in asset ownership, academic achievement, educational attainment, and mass incarceration in New Orleans and beyond. The book explores the many specific aspects of the widespread problem and considers how to move toward achieving a state where all can thrive. Readers will better appreciate the key roles of race, inequality, education, occupation, and militarization in understanding the failures in the responses to this disaster and grasp how institutionalized inequality continues to plague our nation. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 164 pages : illustration ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781440851643 (alkaline paper) 1440851646 (alkaline paper) 1440851654 9781440851650 |
