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Surviving Katrina : The Experiences of Low-Income African American Women / Jessica Warner Pardee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626372481
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 976.3/3500496073 23
LOC classification:
  • HV636 2005.N4 P37 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Understanding Katrina -- 2. Theorizing Disaster Recovery and Everyday Poverty -- Part 1: Preparation -- Introduction -- 3. Decision Time -- 4. Leaving Home -- Part 2: Survival -- Introduction -- 5. Stranded -- 6. Shelters of Last Resort -- Part 3: Recovery -- Introduction -- 7. Seeking Shelter -- 8. Living Displacement -- 9. Returning Home -- 10. Redefining Recovery -- Appendix: Studying Hurricane Katrina as a Scholar-Survivor -- 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781626372481

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Understanding Katrina -- 2. Theorizing Disaster Recovery and Everyday Poverty -- Part 1: Preparation -- Introduction -- 3. Decision Time -- 4. Leaving Home -- Part 2: Survival -- Introduction -- 5. Stranded -- 6. Shelters of Last Resort -- Part 3: Recovery -- Introduction -- 7. Seeking Shelter -- 8. Living Displacement -- 9. Returning Home -- 10. Redefining Recovery -- Appendix: Studying Hurricane Katrina as a Scholar-Survivor -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)