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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Liza Lugo |
ISBN: | 9781440828881 1440828881 9781440828898 144082889X 1440828881 |
OCLC Number: | 856053796 |
Description: | xxix 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | From slavery to Jim Crow -- From Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement -- Katrina's scope and devastation -- Hurricane Katrina's winds blow in new ordinances -- the 21st century and legal analysis -- The lawsuits -- The current state of affairs. |
Series Title: | Racism in American institutions. |
Responsibility: | Liza Lugo, JD. |
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Abstract:
The disproportionate effect of Hurricane Katrina on African Americans was an outcome created by law and societal construct, not chance. This book takes a hard look at racial stratification in American today and debunks the myth that segregation is a thing of the past.
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- Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
- Zoning, Exclusionary -- Law and legislation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
- Social stratification -- United States.
- United States -- Race relations.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
- HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century.
- African Americans -- Social conditions.
- Race relations.
- Racism.
- Social aspects.
- Social stratification.
- Zoning, Exclusionary -- Law and legislation.
- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
- United States.