A Brief Note On Hurricane Katrina And Its Misfortune For The Unfortunate

Hurricane Katrina began as tropical Depression twelve, which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005. On August 24, the storm strengthened and became known as Tropical Storm Katrina, the 11th named storm of the 2005 hurricane season. A few hours before making landfall in Florida on August 25, Tropical storm Katrina was upgraded to Hurricane Katrina (Category1, 74mph winds). An analysis by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) climate prediction center

In order to support his opinion, the author uses historical references to the enormous impact of racial inequality on African American lives. Additionally, Desmond names a set of historical data and rates of the poor African Americans in cities to enhance the reader’s understanding of this complex situation. African Americans were also more likely to get the apartment with broken furniture, windows, and other facilities that confirmed the existence of racial inequality (Desmond, 2016, p.249). To reassert his position, Desmond provides offensive statistics that millions of people are evicted from American homes, and most of them are African American (Desmond, 2016, p.293). As a matter of fact, the author proves that housing discrimination based on race is the primary cause of

As Hurricane Katrina ravaged the South and drowned large parts of New Orleans this past September, the ugly reality of our nation's continuing problem with class, poverty, and race became apparent. Many Americans began to question the possibility of racism being a deciding factor in the fate of many New Orleans citizens who were black and who lived in the poorest, most low-lying portion of the city, the Ninth Ward. Many, including First Lady Laura Bush, denounce critics who say race played a role in the federal government's slow response to the victims of Katrina. While it is possible that the government's slow response to the disaster was not directly due to racism, there are many unanswered questions suggesting the protection of the city

Since African Americans are limited to such opportunities, New Orleans is considered what is presumed to be a “racially segregated landscape of differentiated risk” -- spatial benefits of the post natural disastrous situation flowed to those who weren't from the lower socioeconomic tier. The racial projects that emphasize this formulation are found in how mainstream press coverage viewed those who were stranded and how structural programs not only failed to prepare relief but also intensified city

In Left to Chance the authors: Pam Jenkins, Steve Kroll-Smith, and Vern Baxter attempt to fill a book with details from the events leading up to and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina without explicitly talking about race. This is a new take on writing about hurricane Katrina because most books and articles out there use race as a backbone in describing how devastating the storm was. This decision was beneficial to the overall message of the book because even though the authors never brought up race, the people who were interviewed brought it up on their own volition, which consequently brought the issue of race along for the ride in the entirety of the book without the authors never having to explicitly say, “because they were black.” This perceived notion that race was a huge piece in the puzzle that was the newly decimated New Orleans, shows that even though there is a book that existed in all intents and purposes to NOT focus on race, race was obviously a very prevalent reason in why African Americans suffered the worse in the storm. Furthermore, the authors made an intelligent choice in deciding to choose two economically different black neighborhoods to focus their book on instead of writing about two poor, black neighborhoods, two white neighborhoods, or one white and one black neighborhood. The reason for this is because the two economically different black neighborhoods prove that it wasn’t just a monetary reason for why African Americans were so devastated by the

In Jill Lepore's essay, she will build an irrefutable argument about inequality in America. Describing in detail the quandaries it has caused U.S. citizens. She will provide facts about the trepidation that inequality has founded in our own backyard. Jill Lepore's use of logical, ethical and characteristic anecdotes is profound and extensive.

In “The Geography of Social Vulnerability: Race, Class, and Catastrophe,” Susan Cutter presents a crucial point that America South’s segregated past is still observable in the spatial and social geography of southern cities such as New Orleans. The impact of the storm was greatest to the poor black communities that were located in the least desirable locations, with risks of higher hazard probabilities and limited social services, when wealthy, white individuals have secured homes in safer, flood-protected areas with many resources. The catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina cannot be understood without knowing what triggered the placement of African American communities in areas where flooding was most likely to occur. It is important to recognize the contributions of race and class factors that led to the high black poverty rate in New Orleans and ultimately, to the concentration of poor blacks in areas most vulnerable to the

Past research demonstrates a large racial divide in support of issues with clear racial overtones and we examine the possibility of a racial divide in reactions to Katrina using data from a national telephone survey of white and black Americans. Some find that there is a large different in racial sympthanys for the victims of Hurrican Katrina, how fast the government responded to urgency of attention for the victims, and support for proposed solutions to mend hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, verifying the racial nature of the disaster. Blacks viewed the hurricane victims more positively than did whites, drew a sharper distinction and held more sympathetic feelings for those stranded than evacuated from New Orleans, and were substantially more supportive of government efforts to improve the situation of hurricane victims and rebuild New Orleans. This racial gap is as large as any observed in recent polls, holds up even after controlling for education, income and other possible racial differences, and documents more fully differences that were hinted at in public opinion polls reported at the time of the disaster.

When thinking of a certain town or city, people will remember what it is known for or what they saw. When one is thinking of New Orleans, Louisiana they will more than likely think of African Americans (Pg.90). The Latino population did not start to appear in New Orleans until the late twentieth century (Hernandez-Leon, Pg.90). Following Hurricane Katrina, African Americans felt frivolous or at risk as Latino’s were receiving more attention (Pg.101). In fact, there are facts that prove why African Americans have a right to feel this way.

Following Hurricane Katrina, many people sought to answer the question of whether its social effects and the government response to the country’s biggest natural disaster had more to do with race or with class. During the Hurricane Katrina, the damage was worst in the city's low-lying areas where poor, black residents were concentrated. The fact that most of those pleading for help were black served as a reminder that race continued to affect the opportunities of Americans. The racial dimension of this inadequate governmental response provided a focused attention on the mixture of political bungling and racial hostility that transformed a natural disaster into an enduring human tragedy. Race, class and economic factors are seen as inextricably

Preliminary review and critique of research ‘African Americans’ decision not to evacuate New Orleans before hurricane Katrina: a qualitative study’.

The city of New Orleans, Louisiana has a total population of 343,829. The smallest population total out of all my three cities, the population declined by 140,845 people from 2000-2010. This is taking into account the divesting damages hurricane Katrina (2008) left behind. The Hurricane misplaced many people, homes and jobs. The city of New Orleans consist of 30.5 Non-Hispanic whites and an immense 59.6 percent Non-Hispanic Black population. This percentage of Non-Hispanic Blacks being centered in one area caused some controversy because it is/was believed that this was the

Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States on August 29, 2005, with sustained winds of 280 km per hour. The storm itself caused a great deal of damage, but massive and prolonged flooding caused a greater catastrophe as several levees were breached and drain facilities failed. This paper will discuss the situation and the experiences of the people of New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, in which the disaster demonstrated the failure of the government and exposed the “inequality of risk,” and argue that the Katrina disaster was intensified as a result of the neo-liberal urban policies implemented since the 1970s.

From the Frontline Film, The Old Man and The Storm, the life of Herbert Gettridge was followed after he returned to the 9th Ward of New Orleans to rebuild his home after it was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. After Hurricane Katrina, 500,000 families were displaced, 200,000 homes were destroyed, and 600 congregations were demolished (The Old Man and The Storm). This was a natural disaster of monumental proportions. Ironically though, a mock scenario was created by Louisiana State University’s Center for the Study of Public Health: Impacts of Hurricanes and FEMA, called Hurricane Pam in July of 2004. An artificial disaster was created during a ten day exercise held at the State Emergency

The opinion of New Orleans residents regarding how Hurricane Katrina was handled by the government also depends on the resident’s race, class, and gender. Many of the poor urban residents in New Orleans that were the most devastated by Hurricane Katrina were African American (Pardee, 2014). These residents felt that they were forgotten by their government and left to die because they did