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- Title
The Possible Role of Discrimination in the Rescue Response After Hurricane Katrina.
- Authors
Saucier, Donald A.; Smith, Sara J.; McManus, Jessica L.
- Abstract
The federal rescue response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina was not immediate, nor was its initial magnitude adequate to the level of emergency. For example, despite the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) being given authority to mobilize a federal rescue response prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall, FEMA personnel were not ordered to the affected region until a day had passed after Hurricane Katrina's landfall, and the National Guard was not mobilized until two days had passed (O'Brien and Bender, 2005). Further, a nearby naval vessel was not deployed to assist (Hedges, 2005). Several accusations were made that the individuals and organizations within the federal government who were responsible for providing this help were negligent at least partially due to prejudice against the victims of Hurricane Katrina, many of whom were Black and/or poor. This article explores the possibility that discrimination was a factor in the rescue response to Hurricane Katrina using the social psychological theories of aversive racism, the justification-suppression model of the expression of prejudice, and the arousal: cost-reward model of helping.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HURRICANE Katrina, 2005; EMERGENCY management; RACISM; PREJUDICES; UNITED States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Publication
Journal of Race & Policy (Old Dominion University), 2007, p7
- ISSN
1540-8450
- Publication type
Article