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Zusatztext Awarded the 2009 Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust Leadership in Journalism Award"I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in knowing what really happened to residents of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, and the days that followed . . . It s more than a Katrina story; it s a collection of intimate portraits of people who survived an ordeal of mammoth proportion and lived to tell." - The New Orleans Tribune "This book truly encompasses the African American experience of Katrina in New Orleans. While academics will gain insight from the experiences shared in these narratives, this book is for everyone who wants to hear the truth about what happened in that awful week following Katrina s landfall." - Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Undeserved "The story of Katrina and its aftermath have been told in many literary venues and through many genres. But no book has told the story as plainly and as painfully asOvercoming Katrina. Through the words of the twenty-seven men and women, ranging in age from the very old to those in their twenties, come straightforward and genuine stories of Katrina survivors. These narratives perform one of history s most important functions: to acknowledge the reality of experience.Overcoming Katrinaforces its readers to acknowledge the ugly truth of the ordeal of Katrina and to appreciate the amazing beauty of the survivors resilience, tenacity, and faith as they try to rebuild their lives and their city." - The Huffington Post "An excellent examination of the Hurricane Katrina saga and recommended reading for anyone interested in New Orleans culture." - Oral History Review "These compelling personal narratives convey the rich African American family, community, and institutional life that have created the historic foundation of New Orleans. They are stories of hard work, dignity, survival, courage, and heroic acts by ordinary people.And they are stories of an incompetent federal government, an indifferent president, and of citizens treated like an enemy in their own country. Read this book." - Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Author of American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta "This magnificent collection of stories takes the reader into the churches, dance halls, workplaces and parlors of black New Orleans - and then follows the narrators into myriad places of exile. Read it and celebrate the life that once was. Read it and weep for what has been lost. Most of all, read it if you care about the betrayals and promises of democracy in the United States." - Barbara Ellen Smith, Director of Women's Studies, Virginia Tech"The oral histories of these twenty-seven African Americans bring us as close as we will come to the full human dimensions and significance of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. They remember that epochal event not as victims but as members of a community that resisted slavery and racism and built a rich and powerful culture. Told through the unique prism of New Orleans and Katrina, their memories will make you weep and wonder at the resilience of the human spirit. Theauthors have produced a stunning document, one that calls on us all to work for a better world." - Michael K. Honey, Author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King s Last Campaign and Black Workers Remember, An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle"A goldmine of real stories of Katrina survivors, this is the book everyone has been waiting for since Katrina. In their own words, New Orleans people tell how they endured Katrina, what they lost, and how they are surviving now. Stories of tragedy, courage, racism, hope, abandonment, inspiration, depression, neighborhood, and struggle are all in this book. This book will take your breath away. If you are going to read only one Katrina book, make it this one. You will never think of New Orleans, Katrina or the United States the s...
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D'ANN R. PENNER is the Social Justice Fellow at the Office of the Appellate Defender.
KEITH C. FERDINAND is the Founder of Heartbeats Life Center, a cardiology clinic and human rights organization based in New Orleans's Ninth Ward.
