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- Title
HURRICANE KATRINA IMPACT ON THREE HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (HBCUS): VOICES FROM DISPLACED STUDENTS.
- Authors
Glenn S. Johnson; Shirley A. Rainey
- Abstract
Hurricane Katrina not only destroyed the Gulf Coast States but devastated higher education for African Americans at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the region. Students, faculty, administrators, and staff at these institutions were displaced across the United States. This paper provides a HBCU student perspective of the hurricane and how many of them evacuated from the region. These students' perspectives are placed in the environmental justice framework to provide not only an African American perspective of this horrific storm but a more comprehensive analysis of the impact of the storm environmentally, politically, socially, and economically. This paper also discusses lessons learned from this horrific storm and offers some recommendations to address the needs of the impacted universities.
- Subjects
GULF Coast (U.S.); UNITED States; HURRICANE Katrina, 2005; HURRICANES; AFRICAN Americans; HIGHER education of African Americans; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; HISTORICALLY Black colleges &; universities; STUDENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL justice
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 1/2, p100
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article