| Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Penner, D. (Author), Loparo, Kenneth A. (Foreword by), Ferdinand, K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 023060871X ISBN-13: 9780230608719 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: This oral history collection brings together black New Orleanians' stories of abandonment and evacuation, heroism and terror, prejudice and generosity, and displacement and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and its lengthy aftermath. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 976.335 |
| LCCN: 2008035089 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Topical - Black History - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, the Baptist 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*. |