This article is important because it shows the psychology of response to social justice events especially pertaining to Hurricane Katrina. Green, Rodney D., Marie Kouassi, and Belinda Mambo. "Housing, Race, and Recovery from Hurricane Katrina." The Review of Black Political Economy 40.2 (2013): 145-63. Web. This article discusses how Hurricane Katrina caused more destruction of housing in New Orleans for African Americans because of their historic settlement patterns. Correlation analysis was used in order to study 13 planning districts in New Orlean’s Orleans Parish, which documented the extent of the destruction amongst housing, the distribution of race in their population, and studying the returned population at 2 and 5 year points across
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Whether its social effects and the government response to the United States biggest natural disaster was because of race or class is what is up for debate. With heavy coverage from the media showing how so many blacks were stranded without any basic needs we mainly assumed it strictly had to do with just race, but white American and Conservatives fought the idea that the government showed neglect to African Americans. Within this article the question of not only race but class is brought up when talking about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation that occurred …show more content…
These focuses allow us to discern how places recover population after a disaster. Most migration systems are driven by labor migration in which population is driven by poor economic opportunities to those with greater ones. A social network is key to these migration systems. Most residents, once evacuated from the city, will more than likely migrate to places close by that they have ties to that “allow them to exchange their human, social, and cultural capital, and to stay within their nations’ own boundaries.” Return migration of displaced residents is not the only type of recovery migration. Surprisingly with disaster comes new in migration such as construction works, planners, developers, and city boosters organize to rebuild “bigger and
Whether its social effects and the government response to the United States biggest natural disaster was because of race or class is what is up for debate. With heavy coverage from the media showing how so many blacks were stranded without any basic needs we mainly assumed it strictly had to do with just race, but white American and Conservatives fought the idea that the government showed neglect to African Americans. Within this article the question of not only race but class is brought up when talking about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation that occurred …show more content…
These focuses allow us to discern how places recover population after a disaster. Most migration systems are driven by labor migration in which population is driven by poor economic opportunities to those with greater ones. A social network is key to these migration systems. Most residents, once evacuated from the city, will more than likely migrate to places close by that they have ties to that “allow them to exchange their human, social, and cultural capital, and to stay within their nations’ own boundaries.” Return migration of displaced residents is not the only type of recovery migration. Surprisingly with disaster comes new in migration such as construction works, planners, developers, and city boosters organize to rebuild “bigger and