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   href="http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/FrymerStrolovitchWarren/" 
   description="Katrina’s Political Roots and Divisions =|= Race, Class, and Federalism in American Politics" 
   
     extended="American response to New Orleans was viewed through an exceedingly narrow lens. White America was shocked. Black responses were embedded within an understanding of what social theorists call structural racism." 
   
   hash="84e197b3efc0cbcec3110fb3d70cc6b9"
   user="avivagabriel"
   tag="class classism economic exclusion fraud greed prejudice race racial racism sociocultural socioeconomics sociopolitical "
   time="2007-06-28T04:09:46+0200" />
<post 
   href="http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Fussell/" 
   description="Leaving New Orleans =|= Social Stratification, Networks, and Hurricane Evacuation" 
   
     extended="Evacuation for upper/middle-income residents was straightforward: get a hotel room, visit out-of-town friends/family, pack the car, grab cash...Low-income residents had fewer options: no cash, no vehicles, no out-of-town social networks..." 
   
   hash="ea87e678b0f921cc33cd12369f2d8268"
   user="avivagabriel"
   tag="classes classism evacuations genocide katrina middle poor poverty racism social stratification upper wealth working "
   time="2007-06-28T04:05:44+0200" />
<post 
   href="http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html" 
   description="Viewing American Class Divisions Thru Facebook and MySpace =|= Full Text of Danah Boyd&#039;s 2007 Essay" 
   
     extended="A month ago, the military banned MySpace but not Facebook. This was a very interesting move because the division in the military reflects the division in high schools. Soldiers are on MySpace; officers are on Facebook." 
   
   hash="4e39ea3bb7d3db62e7bad9ab29214051"
   user="avivagabriel"
   tag="bias class class-divisions classes classism emo middle poverty prejudice racism sociocultural socioeconomic sociological sociology sociopolitical teens upper wealth working "
   time="2007-06-28T03:16:53+0200" />
<post 
   href="http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/deWaal/" 
   description="An Imperfect Storm =|= Narratives of Calamity in a Liberal-Technocratic Age" 
   
     extended="There is a rich literature on denial of atrocities including most notably the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. (Cohen, Stan, States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering, London, Polity, 2001)." 
   
   hash="584ad361b37b014abded7eae5e917cf0"
   user="avivagabriel"
   tag="atrocities betrayal calamities classism denial disasters fraud genocide genocides hegemonies hegemony holocausts pork racism rulers ruling-class terrorism theft "
   time="2007-06-27T18:01:56+0200" />
<post 
   href="http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Tierney/" 
   description="The Red Pill, The Matrix, and Awareness of Oppressive, Parasitic Ruling Class Politics" 
   
     extended="We...live inside a matrix...[its] hegemonic power...only strengthened since [911]. Lies...repeated until... accepted as truth...by a bloated, myopic...bureaucracy...stench of pork is everywhere..." 
   
   hash="79526f51cca99acdc26cc08882eef8cb"
   user="avivagabriel"
   tag="bureaucracies classism debacles economics evil fraud greed hegemonies hegemony lies matrix military military-industrial-complex nation oppression politics pork prejudice racism rulers sociocultural socioeconomic sociology sociopolitical terrorism theft "
   time="2007-06-27T17:58:45+0200" />
<post 
   href="http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Dominguez/" 
   description="Seeing and Not Seeing =|= Complicity in Surprise" 
   
     extended="People say they are surprised to see the U.S. looking so &#034;Third World.&#034; [Their] surprise is often deep and very genuine. This is...troubling. The research exists...Is there little or no audience?" 
   
   hash="f9f7a96dfc165228cb05d0dcdcb90025"
   user="avivagabriel"
   tag="black class classism color complicity divides greed ignorance poverty prejudice race racism sociocultural socioeconomic sociological sociology sociopolitical wealth white "
   time="2007-06-27T17:50:32+0200" />
<post 
   href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb05/Bageant0218.htm" 
   description="A Guide to the White Trash Planet for Urban Liberals" 
   
     extended="live in a town where it is easier to find chitterlings, ponhaus and souse in the grocery store than a leek … and where Smokey and the Bandit still plays to packed movie houses year after year. Is it possible for a higher class of person to live in Ameri" 
   
   hash="bef61a2141a1200f5f2e0fb857b05fdb"
   user="avivagabriel"
   tag="classism economics living-wages poor poverty wage-slaves wages whitetrash working "
   time="2007-06-20T07:30:39+0200" />
</posts>
