Race, Hurricane Katrina, and Government Satisfaction: Examining the Role of Race in Assessing Blame

Disaster and poverty : the differential impacts of disaster on the poor in the Gulf Coast region.

“…Although there is a lack of quantitative studies, many anecdotal and qualitative studies based on limited geographic boundaries have argued that disaster impacts are unequally distributed in affected communities varies according to their income composition (Forgette, King, & Dettrey, 2008;Zahran et al, 2008). In the United States, socioeconomic status is a significant predictor in disaster, because the poor people are more likely to identify hazards as precarious events, less likely to prepare for hazards or buy insurance, less likely to respond to warnings, more likely to die and suffer injuries, proportionately greater material losses; have more psychological distress, and face more complications during the stages of response, recovery, and reconstruction (Fothergill & Peek, 2004;Harper, 2005).…”

“…L. K. Edwards, 1998;Forgette et al, 2008;Fothergill, Maestas, & Darlington, 1999;Uttley, 2010;Wiener, 2007;Wisner & Luce, 1993). Race and ethnicity, are related to structural conditions, such as educational and employment prospects, the organization of family and kin systems, cultural preferences that shape an individual's worldview which subsequently influences how people perceive stressful events, view their need for support, and recognize resources that they deem appropriate for managing their circumstances (Carp, 2007;Cline et al, 2010;M.…”

“…Race and ethnicity, are related to structural conditions, such as educational and employment prospects, the organization of family and kin systems, cultural preferences that shape an individual's worldview which subsequently influences how people perceive stressful events, view their need for support, and recognize resources that they deem appropriate for managing their circumstances (Carp, 2007;Cline et al, 2010;M. L. K. Edwards, 1998;Elliott & Pais, 2006;Forgette et al, 2008;Hobfoll, 2012;Kaiser, Eccleston, & Hagiwara, 2008;Wyche et al, 2011).…”

“…Black workers from New Orleans were four times more likely than white counterparts to lose their jobs after the storm (Elliott & Pais, 2006) . Black New Orleanians were in a sequence of gaps of safety net in post-Katrina situation, and were uncared for at the most basic level in a time of emergency, because their households could not be self-supporting; and they could not reliably turn to the informal networks (Bullard, 2008;Forgette et al, 2008;Pyles, Kulkarni, & Lein, 2008;L. B. Rubin, 2008).…”

“…Hurricane Katrina, one of the largest social catastrophes of the twenty-first-century American urban history, ignited pervasive popular and academic debates over domestic policies dealing with inquiries of race and class, individual and government obligations and accountability, and the relationship between society and the environment (Forgette et al, 2008;Gavin, 2008;Henkel et al, 2006;Trotter & Fernandez, 2009). …”