Ferdinand K.
Ferdinand K. - Overcoming Katrina African American Voices From The Crescent City And Beyond - Paperback
Ferdinand K. - Overcoming Katrina African American Voices From The Crescent City And Beyond - Paperback
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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.
Title: Overcoming Katrina African American Voices From The Crescent City And Beyond
Author(s): Ferdinand K.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9780230608719
Pages: 248 Pages, Xxix, 248 P.
Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Category: Natural Disasters
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.
Title: Overcoming Katrina African American Voices From The Crescent City And Beyond
Author(s): Ferdinand K.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9780230608719
Pages: 248 Pages, Xxix, 248 P.
Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Category: Natural Disasters
