Standing in the need : culture, comfort, and coming home after Katrina / Katherine E. Browne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Katherine E., 1953- author.

Series:

Katrina bookshelf

The Katrina bookshelf

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Social aspects.

Disaster victims--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.

Disaster victims.

Refugees--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.

Refugees.

Refugees--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.

Summary:

Standing in the Need presents a gripping account of an African American family's ordeal after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Following more than 150 family members over an eight-year period, Katherine E. Browne reveals how recovery proceeds in fits and starts, how humans adapt to sweeping change, and how a tattered social fabric can be repaired. She also identifies what actually helps people to flourish and achieve a sense of well-being after they have lost nearly everything. In making specific suggestions on how to restore cultural vitality for this Louisiana bayou family, including providing places to gather, cook big meals together, and care for their children, Browne offers a partial roadmap for recovery for an entire community, even a nation, whenever and wherever the next disaster strikes. Book jacket.

Contents:

When they say go

The culture broker

Not just any red beans

Ruin and relief

Trial by trailer

Bayou speech and bayou style

Whose road home?

Almost to the ground

Settling

Call to race

By and by.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.

ISBN:

9781477307281

1477307281

9781477307373

1477307370

OCLC:

900609612