TY  - BOOK
AU  - Browne,Katherine E.
TI  - Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina 
T2  - The Katrina Bookshelf
SN  - 9781477307380
AV  - HV636 2005 .N4 B76 2015
U1  - 976/.0440922 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography
KW  - Disaster victims
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
KW  - Hurricane Katrina, 2005
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Refugees -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Figures --; People --; Introduction --; I. Shock Wave --; II. Wave of Trouble --; III. Wave of Reckoning --; Coda --; Appendix: Methodology --; Notes --; Bibliography --; About the Author and Series Editor --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s ordeal after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this family of one hundred fifty members lived in the bayou communities of St. Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans. Rooted there like the wild red iris of the coastal wetlands, the family had gathered for generations to cook and share homemade seafood meals, savor conversation, and refresh their interconnected lives. In this lively narrative, Katherine Browne weaves together voices and experiences from eight years of post-Katrina research. Her story documents the heartbreaking struggles to remake life after everyone in the family faced ruin. Cast against a recovery landscape managed by outsiders, the efforts of family members to help themselves could get no traction; outsiders undermined any sense of their control over the process. In the end, the insights of the story offer hope. Written for a broad audience and supported by an array of photographs and graphics, Standing in the Need offers readers an inside view of life at its most vulnerable
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/307281
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477307380
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477307380/original
ER  -