Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social differences in human responses to disaster
Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social differences in human responses to disaster
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.02.003
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Pais, Jeremy
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作者：
Elliott, James R.;Pais, Jeremy
2005年8月底，卡特里娜飓风袭击了墨西哥湾南部，摧毁了许多人的生命，并提出了种族和阶级如何影响人类以及机构对灾害的反应的问题。这项研究使用了从1200多名卡特里娜飓风幸存者收集的调查数据，以研究这些影响对广泛的反应，从疏散时间和情感支持，住房和就业情况，并计划返回风暴前的社区。结果显示强烈的种族和阶级差异，这表明，这些方面都不能减少到其他寻求理解的幸存者自己的反应时。这个十字路口使新奥尔良的低收入黑人房主成为最需要有针对性的援助的人，因为居民们正在努力把自己和该地区重新团结起来。(c)2006年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
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 influences on a wide array of responses, ranging from evacuation timing and emotional support to housing and employment situations and plans to return to pre-storm communities. Results reveal strong racial and class differences, indicating that neither of these dimensions can be reduced to the other when seeking to understand responses by survivors themselves. This intersection renders low-income black home owners from New Orleans those most in need of targeted assistance as residents work to put themselves and the region back together. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.