Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social differences in human responses to disaster.
Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf South at the end of August 2005, devastating lives and raising questions about how race and class influence human, as well as institutional, responses to disaster. This study uses survey data collected from over 1200 Hurricane Katrina survivors to examine these inf...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Research Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 295 - 322 |
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Academic Press Inc.
June 2006
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