Left to Chance - Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods

Informationen zum Autor STEVE KROLL-SMITH is currently a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He was formerly a research professor at the University of New Orleans.VERN BAXTER is a professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of New Orleans.PAM JENKINS is a research professor of sociology and a faculty member in the women’s studies program at the University of New Orleans. Klappentext With vivid, firsthand accounts that illuminate the immediate, mid-range, and long-term effects of an unmitigated disaster, this book describes how the residents of two African American neighborhoods have experienced Katrina and the long road to recovery. Zusammenfassung With vivid, firsthand accounts that illuminate the immediate, mid-range, and long-term effects of an unmitigated disaster, this book describes how the residents of two African American neighborhoods have experienced Katrina and the long road to recovery. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsForeword by Elijah AndersonPrologueIntroduction: Water, Conversations, and RacePart I: Navigating Contingency in Two Historic Neighborhoods Chapter 1. "Katrina Takes Aim"Chapter 2. Geographies of Class and ColorPart II: From Evacuees to Exiles Chapter 3. Life on the RoadChapter 4. From the Road to ExilePart III: Traversing and Rebuilding Chapter 5. It's Available, but Is It Accessible?Chapter 6. Rebuilding in a Broken CityChapter 7. "The Katrina Effect"Epilogue: Making a Space for ChanceNotesIndex

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• Authors: Vern Baxter, Vern K. Baxter, Pam Jenkins, Pamela Jenkins, J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Steve Kroll-Smith, Steve Baxter Kroll-Smith, Steve/ Baxter Kroll-Smith
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781477303849
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-0384-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: The Katrina Bookshelf; The Katrina Bookshelf
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology