Overcoming Katrina African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond

by Penner, D'Ann R.; Ferdinand, Keith C.; Carter, Jimmy

• ISBN13: 9780230608702
• ISBN10: 0230608701
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This oral history collection brings together black New Orleanians' stories of abandonment and evacuation, heroism and terror, prejudice and generosity, and displacement and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and its lengthy aftermath.

Author Biography

D'Ann Penner is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. Keith C. Ferdinand is the Founder of Heartbeats Life Center, a cardiology clinic and human rights organization based in New Orleans's Ninth Ward.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Series Editors' Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
New Orleans, Louisiana	p. xxvi
New Orleans Wards 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9	p. xxvii
List of Abbreviations	p. xxix
Plate sections are placed between the chapters 15 and 16
Retirees
	p. 1
	p. 10
	p. 16
	p. 23
	p. 29
	p. 35
	p. 40
At the Height of Their Careers
	p. 49
Cynthia Delores Banks	p. 60
	p. 70
	p. 80
	p. 89
	p. 101
	p. 108
	p. 115
Thirty Something
	p. 121
	p. 130
	p. 142
	p. 152
	p. 159
	p. 168
	p. 175
	p. 181
Coming of Age
	p. 191
	p. 200
	p. 204
	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 220
Epilogue: The Future of New Orleans	p. 228
Notes	p. 231
Index	p. 241
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