Description: Perry and Mushkatel's record of the responses of blacks, Mexican-Americans, and whites not only reveals the differing social configurations of minority and majority groups but, more important, suggests concrete ways to modify and improve emergency management systems.
Brief description: RONALD W. PERRY is a professor of public affairs at Arizona State University and has served on the Committee on United States Emergency Preparedness and the National Academy of Science Committee on Emergency Management.
Review Quotes:
In spite of the small number of communities and types of disaster studied, specialists in race and ethnic relationships should find value in this work. Not only does it provide some solid empirical data in an area marked by a paucity of studies, but it is suggestive of the value of studying behavior under extreme conditions, where the realities of social and cultural life are made manifest.
--Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science