Hurricane Katrina Webquest Report

Hurricane Katrina Report

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ZaRia Washington

Za'Ria's Opinion

Za'Ria's Opinion About Hurricane Katrina

Britney's Opinion

Britney's Opinion About Hurricane Katrina

Initial Information on Hurricane Katrina

Symbolic and Practical Interpretations Article

Approximately 120,000 New Orleans residence lacked cars

80 Percent of the inner city was flooded

1836 individuals were killed Almost ½ of the individuals

killed were 75 or older

Social Affects

Hurricane Katrina Video 204,700 housing units were affected by

Hurricane Katrina according to FEMA 220,000 jobs were lost according to Bureau of

Labor Statistics 40 Public Schools were damaged 72,479 students displaced from the state of

Louisiana Almost 200 billion dollars worth of damage was

done by Hurricane Katrina

Analysis of Social Affects

Many individuals who have lost their homes are having trouble getting their houses rebuilt due to lack of insurance/insurance not providing coverage

Many individuals had to move to other states with family and friends because they had no where to go

Many individuals lost personal affects that they will never be able to salvage due to the destruction of their property

Analysis of Social Affects

As far as jobs, many individuals automatically lost their jobs.

Many of the individuals were very poor so losing a job in New Orleans affected the families greatly.

Individuals that had to leave New Orleans may have gone to areas that may have high unemployment rates.

Analysis of Social Affects

Older individuals appeared to be the most disadvantaged during Hurricane Katrina, more than likely due to their inability to move quickly.

Older individuals made up nearly half of the perished individuals, which affected families who were in the care of their grandparents.

Older individuals failed to get medical assistance in a timely fashion.

Some individuals feel that ageism played a role. The final analysis was that better plans of action should have been taken to assist them during the disaster.

Mental Affects

Many African-Americans feel that the government failed them.

African-Americans no longer trust the government. Many New Orleans residents feel that the government

has ignored the poverty in New Orleans for a long time and that the hurricane allowed the world to see what America had ignored.

Some individuals feel that if the government had fixed the levees,the flooding would not have occurred.

Emotional Affects

Many individuals were very traumatized from Hurricane Katrina.

Many didn't expect that the hurricane would be so destructive.

Some police officers couldn't be located during the aftermath.

Some police officers committed suicide.

Many families lost their loved ones and are still in the processing of healing.

Many individuals can't believe a place of great tourism, food, music, and culture is now an abandoned city that has lost its inhabitants.

Emotional Affects

Many individuals felt that because they were poor and African-American that the government did not respond in a timely fashion.

It appeared that some areas of support were neglected such as providing food, sanitation, water,transportation, etc to the residents.

It appears to many that the government would rather assist other countries who have natural disasters than to help African-Americans.

More Affects

Institutionalized racism may have been the reason behind the maintenance of the levee.

Most of the flooding occurred in the 9th Ward and that was the location of the most poor individuals in New Orleans.

Still evident that racism is still rooted in America, even if there is a Black American President.

There has been an increase in crime in New Orleans due to the lack of resources/scarcity.

There are still areas of New Orleans that are still damaged, no reconstruction, and individuals have abandoned their property.

View of Government

Hurricane Katrina is just an example of the domestic division in class and race in the United States

It appears that political factors affected the individuals in the 9th Ward due to budget cuts for the levee maintenance.

References Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/. (2009, October 28).

Symbolic and Practical Interpretations of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster in New Orleans By David Alexander The Evacuation of Older People: The Case of Hurricane KatrinaBy Bill Bytheway

Worst Case KatrinaBy Lee Clarke

The Geography of Social Vulnerability: Race, Class, and CatastropheBy Susan Cutter

An Imperfect Storm: Narratives of Calamity in a Liberal-Technocratic AgeBy Alex de Waal

Seeing and Not Seeing: Complicity in SurpriseBy Virginia R. Dominguez

Finding and Framing Katrina: The Social Construction of DisasterBy Havidán Rodríguez; Russell Dynes

Women and Girls Last?: Averting the Second Post-Katrina DisasterBy Elaine Enarson

Our Toxic Gumbo: Recipe for a Politics of Environmental KnowledgeBy Scott Frickel

Katrina’s Political Roots and Divisions: Race, Class, and Federalism in American PoliticsBy Dara Strolovitch; Dorian Warren; Paul Frymer

Leaving New Orleans: Social Stratification, Networks, and Hurricane EvacuationBy Elizabeth Fussell

What Katrina Teaches about the Meaning of RacismBy Nils Gilman

Cities Under Siege: Katrina and the Politics of Metropolitan AmericaBy Stephen Graham

Bridges Over Troubled Waters: What are the Optimal Networks for Katrina’s Victims?By Jeanne S. Hurlbert, John J. Beggs, and Valerie A. Haines

Un/natural Disasters, Here and ThereBy Stephen Jackson

ReferencesPolitical FloodwatersBy James M. Jasper

The Criminalization of New Orleanians in Katrina’s WakeBy Sarah Kaufman

New Orleans: The Public Sphere of the DisasterBy Monika Krause

From Disaster to Catastrophe: The Limits of PreparednessBy Andrew Lakoff

Questions About Power: Lessons from the Louisiana HurricaneBy Stephen Lukes

Empowering knowledge: A modest proposal for a broader social science research agenda in the wake of KatrinaBy James K. Mitchell

Death on the Roof: Race and Bureaucratic FailureBy Harvey Molotch

Hurricanes, Poverty, and Vulnerability: An Historical PerspectiveBy Matthew Mulcahy

Disasters and Forced Migration in the 21st CenturyBy Anthony Oliver-Smith

Using Organizations: the Case of FEMABy Charles Perrow

Catastrophes are Different from Disasters: Some Implications for Crisis Planning and Managing Drawn from KatrinaBy E.L. Quarantelli

Two Cities, Two Evacuations: Some Thoughts on Moving People OutBy Joseph Scanlon

There’s No Such Thing as a Natural DisasterBy Neil Smith

Weather Media and Homeland Security: Selling Preparedness in a Volatile WorldBy Marita Sturken

Toxic Soup Redux: Why Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Matter after KatrinaBy Julie Sze

The Red PillBy Kathleen Tierney

Improvising Disaster in the City of Jazz: Organizational Response to Hurricane KatrinaBy Tricia Wachtendorf; James M. Kendra

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