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“Everybody Gets Wet?”: Class, Race and Region after Superstorm Sandy

November 9, 2012
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“Everybody Gets Wet?”: Class, Race and Region after Superstorm Sandy

A week after Hurricane Sandy, it is clear that media presentations of white ethnic working-class "shore" populations are distinct from, yet overlapping with, both those of the more privileged and more visible Manhattan, and also those of the poorer and more disenfranchised Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.
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