Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Sociology of Disasters FROM THE PUBLISHER
Hurricane Andrew has proved to be the most costly natural disaster in US history. This book documents how Miami prepared, coped and responded to the hurricanes which slammed into one of the largest and most ethnically diverse metropolitan areas of the US and explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by influencing who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely to recover.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
A dozen perspectives on how Miami prepared for, coped with, and responded to the August 1992 hurricane that severely damaged or destroyed most public buildings and rendered nearly 50,000 private residences uninhabitable. Questioning the assumption that the damage and recovery in such disasters are a function of the strength of the agent, they explore the social, economic, and political forces that influenced who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely to recover. They apply quantitative and qualitative methods to data gathered since the storm to analyze the consequences of conflict and competition, especially along familiar lines of race, ethnicity, and gender. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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