Katrina: Race, Class, and Poverty

Poverty, race and crime.

Hurricane Katrina-linked environmental injustice: race, class, and place differentials in attitudes.

Claims of environmental injustice, human neglect, and racism dominated the popular and academic literature after Hurricane Katrina struck the United States in August 2005. A systematic analysis of environmental injustice from the perspective of the survivors remains scanty or nonexistent. This paper presents, therefore, a systematic empirical analysis of the key determinants of Katrina-induced ...

Hurricane Katrina: African American Children’s Perceptions of Race, Class, and Government Involvement Amid a National Crisis

The devastation associated with Hurricane Katrina raised several issues related to race, class, and the government in the United States. We examined African American children’s (a) knowledge of demographic characteristics of the victims, (b) beliefs about the role of race and class biases in the delayed relief efforts, and (c) views of the role and effectiveness of the government in response to...

Race, Place and Poverty Revisited

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Race Matters: Race, Poverty and AIDS in Black America

Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [6] (CDC) released a study titled Communities in Crisis: Is There a Generalized HIV Epidemic in Impoverished Urban Areas of the United States. The study is the third in a series of the CDC's rotating surveillance reports conducted to better understand America's HIV epidemic. Previous studies looked at HIV among gay and bisexual men (MSM) and ...