Standing in the need : culture, comfort, and coming home after Katrina

Resource Information

The work Standing in the need : culture, comfort, and coming home after Katrina represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Standing in the need : culture, comfort, and coming home after Katrina

Title remainder

culture, comfort, and coming home after Katrina

Statement of responsibility

Katherine E. Browne

Creator

• Browne, Katherine E., 1953-

Author

• Browne, Katherine E., 1953-

Subject

• Schwarze
• Biography
• Wiederaufbau
• Förenta staterna -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Katrina
• Flyktingar
• Hurricane Katrina (2005)
• Refugees -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Social conditions
• Disaster victims
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
• Disaster victims -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Biography
• Refugees -- Social conditions
• Social aspects
• New Orleans, La
• 2005
• Sociala förhållanden
• Louisiana -- New Orleans
• Orkanen Katrina 2005 -- sociala aspekter

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Publisher's Web site

Member of

• Katrina bookshelf

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

TxU/DLC

Dewey number

• 976/.0440922
• 976.335064

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV636 2005.N4

LC item number

B76 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Katrina bookshelf