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Book Title: Ecologies of Inequity : How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Sancha Doxilly Medwinter
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication Year: 2023
Genre: History, Social Science
Item Weight: 9.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 198 Pages
