Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States

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The events surrounding Hurricane Katrina offer a remarkable case study of the continuing social divide in the USA. This book includes scholarly articles examining the continued struggle for social justice from the perspectives of communication, criminology, education, ethnic studies, history, justice studies, law, political science, and sociology. This multidisciplinary case study approach is a highly effective way of helping readers take note up to date debates about social justice including the roles of historically persistent structural inequality, racism and classism, media portrayals of life changing events, government reactions and responsibilities within the face of crises, and the role of public policy and activism in line with social injustice.

The selection of articles is divided into three sections representing the causes of, consequences of, and responses to social injustice as illustrated during the case study of Hurricane Katrina. The primary section, Images from the Past: Social Justice and Hurricane Katrina in Context examines the structural inequality and cultural divisions in the USA that make a just response to disaster difficult. The second one section, Images of the Disaster: Reactions to Hurricane Katrina, offers analyses of the continuing struggle for social justice within the face of such an event as Hurricane Katrina. The third section, Images of the Future: Policy, Activism, and Justice, makes a speciality of public policy and activism responses for a more just society.

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