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Book Synopsis Face to Face with Katrina Survivors by : Lemuel A. Moyé
Download or read book Face to Face with Katrina Survivors written by Lemuel A. Moyé and published by Open Hand Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the positive spirit of Katrina surivors also looks at the generous and welcoming spirit of the people of Houston, Texas who welcomed them.
Book Synopsis Down But Not Out! by : Sukether Williams Simmons
Download or read book Down But Not Out! written by Sukether Williams Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debbie takes you along on her journey of surviving breast cancer; the fears, the sadness, feeling lost, out of control and her feelings of aloneness. She shares with you her inner most thoughts and feelings, and how she was determined to be a Survivor. Through this tragic event in her life and the life of her new husband, she shares her strength, courage and love for others. She found the support she needed from friends, doctors and family, learning to love herself again, so that others could love her. It is through the grieving process that she learned taking one day at a time, a moment at a time, that each day is a Gift! Breast cancer does not have to be the end of life: it can be just the Beginning!
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape by : DeMond Shondell Miller
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape written by DeMond Shondell Miller and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller and Rivera explore how the fundamental changes to the physical landscape after Hurricane Katrina set the stage for dramatic changes to come for the city and region, and how these changes altered the economic, cultural, and political lives of the survivors.
Book Synopsis Left to Chance by : Steve Kroll-Smith
Download or read book Left to Chance written by Steve Kroll-Smith and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of two black neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina vividly captures the struggle and uncertainty in the process of rebuilding. Hurricane Katrina was the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.
Download or read book 5 Days written by Derrick M. J. Francis and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Days: How I Survived Hurricane Katrina is loosely based on the five days Derrick M. J. Francis spent trapped in the flooded city of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The book describes what it was like growing up in the most dangerous city in America, overcoming the destruction of his family due to divorce and ultimately coming face to face with the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina. Derrick M. J. Francis vividly recalls the horror of Hurricane Katrina for the first time ever! You will be on the edge of your seat as he takes you on a mental tour of what is known to the world as The Big Easy. There is no other book like this on the market! ItA[a¬a[s eloquently written by a real Hurricane Katrina survivor!
Download or read book Displaced written by Lynn Weber and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina’s landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Others have chosen to make their homes elsewhere. Still others found a way to return home but were unable to stay due to the limited availability of social services, educational opportunities, health care options, and affordable housing. The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced. Drawing on research in thirteen communities in seven states across the country, the contributors describe the struggles that evacuees have faced in securing life-sustaining resources and rebuilding their lives. They also recount the impact that the displaced have had on communities that initially welcomed them and then later experienced “Katrina fatigue” as the ongoing needs of evacuees strained local resources. Displaced reveals that Katrina took a particularly heavy toll on households headed by low-income African American women who lost the support provided by local networks of family and friends. It also shows the resilience and resourcefulness of Katrina evacuees who have built new networks and partnered with community organizations and religious institutions to create new lives in the diaspora.
Download or read book Community Lost written by Ronald J. Angel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the complementary, and often conflicting, roles of FEMA, other governmental agencies and a range of non-governmental organizations in addressing survivors' short- and longer-term needs. While these organizations came together to assist with immediate emergency needs, even collectively they could not deal with survivors' long-term needs for employment, affordable housing and personal records necessary to rebuild lives. Community Lost provides empirical evidence that civil society organizations cannot substitute for an efficient and benevolent state, which is necessary for society to function.
Download or read book Soul Storm written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Left to Chance by : Steve Kroll-Smith
Download or read book Left to Chance written by Steve Kroll-Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with raw existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.
Book Synopsis Stories from the Storm: Hurricane Katrina Survivors, in Their Own Words by :
Download or read book Stories from the Storm: Hurricane Katrina Survivors, in Their Own Words written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Katrina After The Fact by : Nicol Breaux Alipio
Download or read book Katrina After The Fact written by Nicol Breaux Alipio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katrina After the Fact is a poignant look at life in New Orleans after the storm. Told through the eyes of a local, the author takes you through the personal side of Katrina's aftermath. The subtitle says it all with chapters that run the gamut, from waxing nostalgic in "Real New Orleanians" and "Do You Know What it Means to Miss the Cuisine?" to "The Sounds of New Orleans," which details fictional, but disturbing accounts of those left behind to weather the storm. Fed up with government gaffes and inefficiency, the author takes aim on the endless bureaucracy holding the city's residents back from rebuilding and getting on with their lives. You won't be able to put down this descriptive and emotional rollercoaster ride as the author paints a humorous and sometimes frightening picture as colorful as the city itself.
Book Synopsis Suffering Katrina by : T. L. Vidrine
Download or read book Suffering Katrina written by T. L. Vidrine and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffering Katrina contains detailed personal interviews from survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Harvey, St. Bernard Parish, and Ascension Parish. Each account gives the reader a view of the events that unfolded in the lives of survivors as the storm approached, arrived, and departed from the Louisiana coastal region. Four interviews are from actual victims who evacuated before, during, and after the storm. As uninterrupted rain and wind pounded, one survivor takes a leap of faith and decides to depart from her house to seek shelter in an unknown area as her roof top, door, and window are blown off of her house. Two other interviews are from a National Guardsman stationed in New Orleans two days before the storm and a CT Technologist who was trapped in Tulane Medical Center for five days where gang activity took place.
Book Synopsis Consuming Katrina by : Kate Parker Horigan
Download or read book Consuming Katrina written by Kate Parker Horigan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and under what circumstances are disaster survivors able to speak for themselves in the public arena? In Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative, author Kate Parker Horigan shows how the public understands and remembers large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina, outlining which stories are remembered and why, as well as the impact on public memory and the survivors themselves. Horigan discusses unique contexts in which personal narratives about the storm are shared, including interviews with survivors, Dave Eggers's Zeitoun, Josh Neufeld's A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water, and public commemoration during Hurricane Katrina's tenth anniversary in New Orleans. In each case, survivors initially present themselves in specific ways, counteracting negative stereotypes that characterize their communities. However, when adapted for public presentation, their stories get reduced back to those stereotypes. As a result, people affected by Katrina continue to be seen in limited terms, as either undeserving or incapable of managing recovery. This project is rooted in Horigan's experiences living in New Orleans before and after Katrina, but it is also a case study illustrating an ongoing problem and an innovative solution: survivors' stories should be shared in a way that includes their own engagement with the processes of narrative production, circulation, and reception. When survivors are seen as agents in their own stories, they will be seen as agents in their own recovery. Having a better grasp on the processes of narration and memory is critical for improved disaster response because the stories that are most widely shared about disaster determine how communities recover.
Book Synopsis Family Resiliency of Hurricane Katrina Survivors by : Maria C. Deitte
Download or read book Family Resiliency of Hurricane Katrina Survivors written by Maria C. Deitte and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hurricane Katrina, Updated Edition by : Jamie Pietras
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina, Updated Edition written by Jamie Pietras and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first signs of sunlight emerged from the trickling rain the morning of Monday, August 29, 2005, many residents of the city of New Orleans hoped the worst was behind them. Hours earlier, the tropical hurricane known as "Katrina" made landfall at an area just 70 miles to the southeast of the city, tearing the roofs off buildings and tossing boats like confetti. Tens of thousands of survivors in need of food, water, and medical attention sat stranded along the city's sweltering highways and in the Superdome and Convention Center. Worse, others remained trapped in their damaged homes. In an attempt to coordinate relief efforts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency implemented strict disaster-response rules that made it difficult for organizations to offer assistance and waited a precious five days before sending much-needed supplies to the Convention Center. Hurricane Katrina, Updated Edition explains how the disaster stands among the worst in U.S. history, killing more than 1,600 people, and destroying 200,000 homes along the Gulf Coast. More than a million fled the Gulf region, where economic losses and property damages from flooding were expected to reach a record $125 billion.
Book Synopsis Come Hell Or High Water by : Michael Eric Dyson
Download or read book Come Hell Or High Water written by Michael Eric Dyson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America-and what lessons we must take from the flood-from best-selling ''hip-hop intellectual'' Michael Eric Dyson Does George W. Bush care about black people? Does the rest of America? When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these people were black; nearly all were poor. The federal government's slow response to local appeals for help is by now notorious. Yet despite the cries of outrage that have mounted since the levees broke, we have failed to confront the disaster's true lesson; to be poor, or black, in today's ownership society, is to be left behind. Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him fans across the color line, Michael Eric Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Combining interviews with survivors of the disaster with his deep knowledge of black migrations and government policy over decades, Dyson provides the historical context that has been sorely missing from public conversation. He explores the legacy of black suffering in America since slavery, including the shocking ways that black people are framed in the national consciousness even today. With this call-to-action, Dyson warns us that we can only find redemption as a society if we acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering or emergency response failure. From the TV newsroom to the Capitol Building to the backyard, we must change the ways we relate to the black and the poor among us. What's at stake is no less than the future of democracy.
Download or read book Community Lost written by Ronald Angel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses interviews with evacuees and service provider reports to analyse the response to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina.
