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

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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

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

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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...

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...

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

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

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

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves es...

Pirkei Imahot is first and foremost a book about giving Jewish women a voice within our Jewish tradition. Through that voice, the reader is given a...

Reducere. The Black Mask writings of one of the great detective pulp writers are finally collected in book form. Author Norbert Davis broke in to the pages o...

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

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Presents a collection of eight original essays by scholars whose research and writings over the past twenty years have helped elevate Alcott's repu...

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

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

Reducere. In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implicat...

Reducere. Explore the events of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it caused in new Orleans, the global efforts to help the victims, and the rebuilding ef...

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...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Min Hee GoIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane...

Hear the stories of Black British Christians in their own words.Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2007Dimensions:...

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Reducere. Psalms in Ordinary Voices is an exciting new collection of the Bible's 150 Psalms, each rewritten in contemporary language by an "ordinary" person....

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and ...