The blame game: Racialized Responses to Hurricane Katrina

Du Bois Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 161-174

  Sweeney, Kathryn A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color blind; Inequality; Meritocracy; Race; Racism; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749011923     PISSN: 1742058X     EISSN: 17420598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X06060115     Document Type: Article

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