Overcoming Katrina [electronic resource] : African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond / by D. Penner, K. Ferdinand.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9780230619616
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/3982
Yazar
Penner, D.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2009.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XXIX, 248 p. online resource.
Dizi
Palgrave Studies in Oral History, 2731-5681
Özet, vb.
Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Their oral histories offer first-hand experiences: three days on a roof with Navy veteran Leonard Smith; at the convention center with waitress Eleanor Thornton; and with Willie Pitford, an elevator man, as he rescued 150 people in New Orleans East. Overcoming approaches the question of why New Orleans matters, from perspectives of the individuals who lived, loved, worked, and celebrated life and death there prior to being scattered across the country by Hurricane Katrina. This book's twenty-seven narrators range from Mack Slan, a conservative businessman who disparages the younger generation for not sharing his ability to make "good, rational decisions," to Kalamu ya Salaam, who was followed by the New Orleans Police Department for several years as a militant defender of Black Power in the late 1960s and '70s. These narratives are memorials to the corner stores, theBaptist churches, the community health clinics, and those streets where the aunties stood on the corner, and whose physical traces have now all been washed away. They conclude with visions of a safer, equitably rebuilt New Orleans. *Scroll down for more audio excerpts from Overcoming Katrina*.
Konu
Social history.
African Americans.
Culture.
United States __ History.
Environmental sciences __ Social aspects.
America __ History.
History, Modern.
Social History.
African American Culture.
US History.
Environmental Social Sciences.
History of the Americas.
Modern History.
Diğer Yazarlar
Ferdinand, K.
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