Race and U.S. foreing disaster aid

This article aims to make two contributions. First, the issue of race and U.S. disaster aid allocations is addressed by coding each recipient state according to its predominant ethnic group and using that as independent variable in the analysis of U.S. disaster assistance allocations from 1964-1995. Second, the possibility that different results might be produced by using location, specifically sub-Saharan Africa, is evaluated by substituting a geographical measure for the actual population characteristics as a coding for race. The findings indicate that race is not a statistically significant factor (AU)