| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright page ; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements ; Ch1- Understanding Katrina; Landfall; Meeting the Women; Table 1.1 Descriptive Statistics for the Sample; Collecting the Data; Ruby's Experience; Lydia's Experience; The Book's Outline; Ch2- Theorizing Disaster Recovery andEveryday Poverty; Poverty and the Crescent City; Surviving Poverty Every Day; Theorizing Disaster Recovery and Everyday Pove; Gender, Disaster, and Poverty; PART 1- PREPARATION ; Ch3- Decision Time; Narrating the Storm as "Safe"; Considering Alternate Narratives; The Collective Narrative; Conclusion |
|
Ch4- Leaving HomeThe Kin Caravan; Left Behind; Conclusion; PART 2- SURVIVAL; Ch5- Stranded; Exposure to Danger; Mothering in the Storm; Surrounded by Guns; Conclusion; Ch6- Shelters of Last Resort ; The Louisiana Superdome; Dehumanizing Survivors; Objectified Suffering; Conclusion; PART 3- RECOVERY; Ch7- Seeking Shelter ; Liminal Spaces for Survival; Crowding In with Family; Formal Federal Assistance; Conclusion; Ch8- Living Displacement; Starting Over After the Storm; Strategy Dismantled: Jobless in New Labor Markets; Uncertain Survival: Aid-based Strategies; Conclusion; Ch9- Returning Home |
|
Is It Safe to Go Home?Surviving in the "New" New Orleans; Market Tensions at the River Garden; Conclusion; Ch10- Redefining Recovery; The Transferability of Survival Strategies; Defining Low-Income Disaster Recovery; Appendix- Studying Hurricane Katrina as a Scholar-Survivor; Studying Katrina as a Scholar-Survivor; Meeting Katrina: Surely another False Call; Weaving Old into New; Seeking the Displaced; Discussing Disaster; Living Losses Together; Personal Growth through Silence; Bibliography; Index; About the Book |
| Summary |
Jessica Pardee documents and examines the experiences of low-income African American women during Hurricane Katrina to uncover the ways that race, class, and gender shape the experiences of disasters. Drawing on intimate interviews to explore the complex challenges that these women faced in the course of the hurricane and its aftermath, Pardee reveals how, with so few material resources, they survived the storm and began the process of rebuilding their lives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 10, 2015) |
| Subject |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
|
|
Women disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
|
|
African American women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
|
|
Poor women -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
|
|
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
|
|
African American women
|
|
Poor women
|
|
Social aspects
|
|
Women disaster victims
|
|
Louisiana -- New Orleans
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781626372481 |
|
1626372489 |
|
1626370443 |
|
9781626370449 |
|
