Description: Racing the Storm addresses how racial stratification continues to be a factor in U.S. society and was exposed by Hurricane Katrina. The continuing significance of race is examined by considering public opinion, media representations, and government and volunteer response befor...
Brief description: Allison Cotton is professor of criminology and criminal justice at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She is author of the book Effigy: Images of Capital Defendants.
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"Racing the Storm uses race as a way to study it[Hurrican Katrina]. Highly recommended." --., Choice Reviews
"This book highlights the race-based perceptions of and responses to Katrina survivors by governmental entities, volunteers, the media, and the general public. Scholars from a variety of disciplines take on the task of analyzing the social phenomena and racial implications surrounding Hurricane Katrina." --., Natural Hazards Observer "Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina is a wide ranging exploration of the many phases of the catastrophe, from social psychological statistical analysis of social identity and attributions explanations of race-based perceptions, the meaning of crime and looting from the perspectives of Black and minority people, the history and emerging racialization of Latino immigrants in New Orleands, to an intriguing comparison of Katrina and the human suffering caused by the war in Iraq. I strongly recommend it." --B. E. Aguirre, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware