Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
by D. Bullard,RobertEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2009-02-10
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Summary
Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, and recovery. Race plays out in survivors' ability to rebuild, obtain loans, and locate housing. Low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically and physicallybeforeandafterdisasters strike.
Author Biography
Robert D. Bullard is Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Considered the “father” of the environmental justice movement, he has written several books, including Dumping in Dixie (2000).
Beverly Wright is a sociologist and the director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans. A Hurricane Katrina survivor, she is the author of In the Wake of the Storm (2006) and Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty (2007).
Table of Contents
| Tables and Figures | p. vii |
| Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Challenges of Racialized Place | |
| Race, Place, and the Environment in Post-Katrina New Orleans | p. 19 |
| The Overlooked Significance of Place in Law and Policy: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina | p. 49 |
| Transportation Matters: Stranded on the Side of the Road Before and After Disasters Strike | p. 63 |
| Katrina and the Condition of Black New Orleans: The Struggle for Justice, Equity, and Democracy | p. 87 |
| Health and Environment Post-Katrina | |
| Contaminats in the Air and Soil in New Orleans After the Flood: Opportunities and Limitations for Community Empowerment | p. 115 |
| Investing in Human Capital and Healthy Rebuilding in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina | p. 139 |
| Making the Case for Community-Based Laboratories: A New Strategy for Environmental Justice | p. 153 |
| Equitable Rebuilding and Recovery | |
| Post-Katrina Profiteering: The New Big Easy | p. 169 |
| Rebuilding Lives Post-Katrina: Choices and Challenges in New Orleans's Economic Development | p. 183 |
| The Color of Opportunity and the Future of New Orleans: Planning, Rebuilding, and Social Inclusion After Hurricane Katrina | p. 205 |
| Housing Recovery in the Ninth Ward: Disparities in Policy, Process, and Prospects | p. 229 |
| Policy Choices for Social Change | |
| Unnatural Disaster: Social Impacts and Policy Choices After Katrina | p. 249 |
| Afterword: Looking Back to Move Forward | p. 265 |
| About the Authors | p. 275 |
| Index | p. 279 |
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