The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: The Resilience and Recovery of Mississippi Black Women, Hardcover - Ophera Davis

Reducere. Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on a single group of women disaster sur...

Reducere. Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on a single group of women disaster sur...

Reducere. On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisia...

Reducere. Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick presents a gripping yet poignant novel about a 12-year-old boy and his dog who become trapped in New Orleans ...

Reducere. In "Sisters of the Yam, " bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sex...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Examines how different memory texts - filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums - function both to bolster and question the centrality of...

Reducere. The Magic Behind the Voices is a fascinating package of biographies, anecdotes, credit listings, and photographs of the actors who have created the...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Civil War, Mississippi's strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state's system of railroads drew the atte...

Reducere. Suffering heavy damage in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Puerto Rican communities lacked access to clean water and electricity. Salvador Góme...

For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other ...

Presents a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area with a fascinating civil rights history. The product of ...

Reducere. Survive and Thrive in Our Uncertain and Turbulent New Normal"...hope and inspiration to those who are suffering." --Danielle Guinaugh, MS, LMHC, NC...

Reducere. Donald Colletti and Jimmy Pitre are forced to flee their flooded houses as Hurricane Katrina devastates their beloved city of New Orleans. But rath...

DescriptionA fantastically inspiring collection of interviews with 40 successful and empowering women, including Maya Angelou, Isabel Allende, Mary...

Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina - Ronald J. Angel, Holly Bell, Julie Beausoleil, Laura Lein

Reducere. This is a book of sexual magicks in both theory and practice fromthe feminine power zones and from their own points of view. Very littlehas been wr...

Reducere. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, di...

Reducere. In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to sign...

Reducere. Christopher Kennedy Lawford's New York Times bestselling memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, offered readers a startling, first-hand look at his own ad...

Reducere. "Beyond Katrina" is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were for...

Reducere. Celebrate, share, and take to heart the unsung accomplishments of these unflappable strong womenThere are so many more incredible women throughout ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They...

Within the pages of American history are the stories of remarkable African American women who have defied the odds, taken a stand for justice, and ...

Reducere. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they...

Reducere. First went the power. Then came the water, and for five days, the country's oldest hospital was under siege. The never-before-told story of the her...

Reducere. In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's ""Black and White Dance"" in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, ...

Reducere. Kirkus' Best of 2015 list School Library Journal Best of 2015 Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list Horn Book Fanfare Book Booklist Editor's Choice...

Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Neg...

Presents a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, lang...

Reducere. A timely collection of deeply personal, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of Black joy--in the vein of Black Gi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn June 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, provided the setting for one of the most notorious crimes of the civil rights era: the Klan-o...