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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807294903321

Autore

Browne Katherine E. <1953->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4773-0738-9

9781477307380

1477307389

9781477307397

1477307397

9781477307281

9781477307373

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 245 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The Katrina bookshelf

Disciplina

976/.0440922

Soggetti

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Social aspects

Disaster victims - Louisiana - New Orleans

Refugees - Louisiana - New Orleans - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.