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Weathering Katrina : culture and recovery among Vietnamese Americans / Mark J. VanLandingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- VanLandingham, Mark Jennings, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnamese Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.
- Vietnamese Americans.
- Community development--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Community development.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The principal Vietnamese American enclave was a remote, low-to-moderate income area that flooded badly. Many residents arrived decades earlier as refugees from the Vietnam War and were marginally fluent in English. Yet, despite these poor odds of success, the Vietnamese made a surprisingly strong comeback in the wake of the flood. While some commentators initially attributed this resilience to fairly simple explanations such as strong leadership or to a set of vague cultural strengths characteristic of the Vietnamese and other "model minorities", Mark J. VanLandingham shows that a broad set of factors fostered their rapid recovery. By carefully defining and disentangling the elements that enabled the swift recovery of the Vietnamese in New Orleans, Weathering Katrina enriches our understanding of this understudied immigrant community and of why some groups fare better than others after a major catastrophe like Katrina. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: why are the Vietnamese doing so well?
- Who are these people? A brief history of Vietnamese New Orleanians (in collaboration with Hongyun Fu)
- Data, methods, and research strategy
- Why are the Vietnamese doing so well? A framework and assessment of post-disaster recovery
- Why are the Vietnamese doing so well? Explaining differences in post-disaster recovery
- Why are the Vietnamese doing so well? Culture and its confounders
- Cultural and non-cultural influences on the recovery of the Vietnamese American community in post-Katrina New Orleans
- Summary and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 10, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781610448642
- 1610448642
- Publisher Number:
- 99976954649
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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