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No-One Receives Psychiatric Treatment In A Squad Car, Judy A. Clausen, Joanmarie Davoli
No-One Receives Psychiatric Treatment In A Squad Car, Judy A. Clausen, Joanmarie Davoli
Faculty Scholarship
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Playing Politics With Executions Abuse Of Executive Discretion, Joanmarie Davoli
Playing Politics With Executions Abuse Of Executive Discretion, Joanmarie Davoli
Faculty Scholarship
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Katrina’S Window: Localism, Re-Segregation And Equitable Regionalism, David D. Troutt
Katrina’S Window: Localism, Re-Segregation And Equitable Regionalism, David D. Troutt
Rutgers Law School (Newark) Faculty Papers
The worst national disaster in United States history also showcased the dire consequences of localism as the cultural and legal successor to de jure segregation. Long before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, New Orleans’ status as an exceptional city had been lost to Americanizing trends. Its resistance to the conventional racial binary was overcome after Reconstruction; its unique densities and accommodation of the physical landscape were transformed into sprawling divisions by technology and suburbanization. From the Brown decision forward, New Orleans and the metropolitan area around it developed much like the rest of the nation. Localist tendencies …