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D. Penner

Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond

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Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Their oral histories offer first-hand experiences: three days on a roof with Navy veteran Leonard Smith; at the convention center with waitress Eleanor Thornton; and with Willie Pitford, an elevator man, as he rescued 150 people in New Orleans East. Overcoming approaches the question of why New Orleans matters, from perspectives of the individuals who lived, loved, worked, and celebrated life and death there prior to being scattered across the country by Hurricane Katrina. This book's twenty-seven narrators range from Mack… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ferdinand, K. / Carter, Jimmy (Solist)
  • ISBN: 978-0-230-60870-2
  • EAN: 9780230608702
  • Produktnummer: 3730746
  • Verlag: Springer Nature
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 248 S.
  • Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.0 cm 522 g
  • Auflage: 2009
  • Gewicht: 522

Über den Autor


D'ANN R. PENNER is the Social Justice Fellow at the Office of the Appellate Defender.KEITH C. FERDINAND is the Founder of Heartbeats Life Center, a cardiology clinic and human rights organization based in New Orleans's Ninth Ward.

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