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Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods: The Katrina Bookshelf

Autor Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter, Pam Jenkins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477303849
ISBN-10: 1477303847
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria The Katrina Bookshelf


Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by Elijah Anderson
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: Water, Conversations, and Race
  • Part I: Navigating Contingency in Two Historic Neighborhoods
    • Chapter 1. "Katrina Takes Aim"
    • Chapter 2. Geographies of Class and Color
  • Part II: From Evacuees to Exiles
    • Chapter 3. Life on the Road
    • Chapter 4. From the Road to Exile
  • Part III: Traversing and Rebuilding
    • Chapter 5. It's Available, but Is It Accessible?
    • Chapter 6. Rebuilding in a Broken City
    • Chapter 7. "The Katrina Effect"
  • Epilogue: Making a Space for Chance
  • Notes
  • Index

Descriere

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.