Race, Class, and Money in Disaster

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dc.contributor.authorZack, Naomi
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-25T09:22:10Z
dc.date.available2022-01-25T09:22:10Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description20 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractWe are a society that treats human remains with respect. In wartime, the dead are transported home and buried with great solemnity, attended by their friends, relatives, neighbors, and public dignitaries. The flags that drape their coffins are ceremoniously folded and reverently handed to spouses, parents, or children. In the days after the World Trade Center collapsed, New York City Fire Department personnel worked around the clock, forming brigades to carefully bring out containers of human remains. During the fire fight at the Pentagon, the FBI meticulously oversaw the search for, and retrieval, documentation, and transportation of, human remains. The remains ranged in size from tissue measured in inches to intact corpses. Each set of remains was carried out of the Pentagon by at least two members the Old Guard elite ceremonial unit from Fort Myers, who were escorted in and out of the Pentagon for that purpose by FEMA officials. Great care was taken to avoid media and Internet spectacles of "body parts."1 Official efforts of this nature are intended to protect human dignity, as well as to honor those who died while serving their country.en_US
dc.identifier.citationZack, Naomi. “Race, Class, and Money in Disaster.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 47, no. S1, 2009, pp. 84–103., https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-6962.2009.tb00141.x.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27010
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Southern Journal of Philosophyen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.titleRace, Class, and Money in Disasteren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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