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Minority Citizens in Disaster (Paperback, Pbk)
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Minority Citizens in Disaster (Paperback, Pbk)
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The first study of its kind to address the issue of ethnic
diversity, Minority Citizens in Disasters focuses on the responses
of two minorities-blacks and Mexican-Americans-relative to whites
in three disaster events: a propane car derailment, a nitric acid
spill, and a flood. Ronald Perry and Alvin Mushkatel find that
response to initial warnings is influenced by the source of the
information-mass media, public authorities, or family and
friends-and by the immediacy of the danger, a group's familiarity
with the type of threat, and the cause of the disaster. Though
social contacts were most often the source of warning, public
authorities were the most trusted and reliable. The mass media,
usually considered an unreliable source, proved an effective means
for reaching a majority of Mexican-Americans, who often tuned in to
Spanish-language stations. Blacks, however, tended to dismiss the
media as a vehicle controlled by whites and covering primarily
white concerns, while whites often dismissed news stories as mere
media productions. Perry and Mushkatel's record of the responses of
blacks, Mexican-Americans, and whites not only reveals the
differing social configurations of minority and majority groups
but, more importantly, suggests concrete ways to modify and improve
emergency management systems.
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