LEADER 05126nam 22009374a 450 001 9910778116803321 005 20230721031744.0 010 $a1-282-76228-1 010 $a9786612762284 010 $a0-520-93384-2 010 $a1-4356-0200-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520933842 035 $a(CKB)1000000000478628 035 $a(EBL)314080 035 $a(OCoLC)180278569 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141100 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157386 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141100 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10056208 035 $a(PQKB)10172557 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC314080 035 $a(DE-B1597)519332 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520933842 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL314080 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190622 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276228 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000478628 100 $a20070104d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDown in New Orleans$b[electronic resource] $ereflections from a drowned city /$fBilly Sothern ; photographs by Nikki Page 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (370 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-25149-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 317-334) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$tChapter 1. A Man Leaves Home --$tChapter 2. A Stranger Comes to Town --$tChapter 3. "This Blues Is Just Too Big" --$tChapter 4. A Dollar Short --$tChapter 5. Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short --$tChapter 6. Not in My Backyard --$tChapter 7. Left to Die --$tChapter 8. Bring the War Home --$tChapter 9. The Dry Run of the Apocalypse --$tChapter 10. History Repeats Itself --$tChapter 11. Going Home --$tChapter 12. Oxford Town --$tChapter 13. I Do Believe I've Had Enough --$tChapter 14. Everyday Reminders --$tChapter 15. Second Line --$tChapter 16. Gideon's Blues --$tChapter 17. Live from the Circle Bar --$tChapter 18. Corporate Limits --$tChapter 19. Fat Tuesday --$tChapter 20. Hard Lot --$tChapter 21. La Nueva Orleans --$tChapter 22. Yours in Struggle --$tChapter 23. In the Parish --$tChapter 24. Not Resigned --$tChapter 25. Epitaph --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $a"Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an easy place to be in love, it hasn't been an easy place to take care of yourself or see the bright side of things." So reflects Billy Sothern in this riveting and unforgettable insider's chronicle of the epic 2005 disaster and the year that followed. Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in the Crescent City four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story. Writing with an idealist's passion, a journalist's eye for detail, and a lawyer's attention to injustice, Sothern recounts their struggle to come to terms with the enormity of the apocalyptic scenario they managed to live through. He guides the reader on a journey through post-Katrina New Orleans and an array of indelible images: prisoners abandoned in their cells with waters rising, a longtime New Orleans resident of Middle Eastern descent unfairly imprisoned in the days following the hurricane, trailer-bound New Orleanians struggling to make ends meet but celebrating with abandon during Mardi Gras, Latino construction workers living in their trucks. As a lawyer-activist who has devoted his life to procuring justice for some of society's most disenfranchised citizens, Sothern offers a powerful vision of what Katrina has meant to New Orleans and what it still means to the nation at large. 606 $aHurricane Katrina, 2005 606 $aHurricanes$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 606 $aDisaster victims$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 606 $aEmergency management$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 610 $aapocalypse. 610 $aclass war. 610 $aclimate change. 610 $adisenfranchisement. 610 $aenvironmental activism. 610 $aflooding. 610 $airanian. 610 $alatin americans. 610 $alatino. 610 $alatinx. 610 $alevy break. 610 $alouisiana. 610 $amardi gras. 610 $amiddle eastern author. 610 $anatural disaster. 610 $anatural disasters. 610 $anew orleans. 610 $apost apocalyptic scenario. 610 $apost-katrina. 610 $arace and racism. 610 $asouthern cities. 610 $atrailer park. 610 $auniversity textbook. 615 0$aHurricane Katrina, 2005. 615 0$aHurricanes 615 0$aDisaster victims 615 0$aEmergency management$xGovernment policy 676 $a976.3/35064 700 $aSothern$b Billy$f1977-$01548963 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778116803321 996 $aDown in New Orleans$93806401 997 $aUNINA