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| Publisher | : America Star Books |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2015-10-22 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781627726030 |
Our story, Katrina Blues begins around the time when Hurricane Katrina plunged the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast into pure agony. Katrina Blues is the story of a storm and its aftermath that became the worst natural disaster in a century. Our story centers on Rose Parker and her family, her husband, two young boys and a baby girl. They watched on television day after day of images depicting the harsh existence, showing exhausted families and children stepping around corpse while they begged. With total chaos and no sign of law and order, the Parker family made their decision to leave the area. The city had become a watery nightmare. It was a rainy night when they left, while driving down a wet and slippery highway, suddenly there's a lighting flash, a tree falls onto the pavement and a car out of control plunges into a rising river stream and is suddenly caught up in a strong current which carries the car further downstream. The Parker family in their attempt to escape the effects of the hurricane now find themselves a victim, pull into a vortex of misery that would shatter their dreams and tear their lives apart. Katrina Blues is a story that will take you beyond the comprehensible; it will defy your imagination and expose the unthinkable. Katrina Blues is about affairs of the heart, an exciting thrilling mixture of love, family values, romance, heartbreak, humor, suspense, drama and tragedy. Katrina Blues is a thriller that will sweep you away and take you on an adventure unlike any you've ever experience without leaving the comfort of your own home.
| Author | : Clyde Woods |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 2017-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0820350907 |
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance. Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development. Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to overlook New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.
| Author | : Eric Farrel Mason |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 1099 |
| Release | : 2011-10-28 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9004215204 |
This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.
| Author | : Eric F. Mason |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 1098 |
| Release | : 2011-10-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004224084 |
This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars—including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students—offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.
| Author | : Philip C. Kolin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780976041351 |
Hurricane Blues is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts--written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath. This collection not only records history but serves in some way as a balm, a relief effort toward the inevitable reconstruction of the region. Accordingly, all proceeds from Hurricane Blues will go toward the relief effort. This is poetry as bread, cast upon the surface of the waters.
| Author | : Robert D. Bullard |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2018-04-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0429977484 |
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some 'temporary' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.
| Author | : Thomas W. Sanchez |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2017-12-22 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 131530869X |
The field of urban planning is far-reaching in breadth and depth. This is due to the complex nature of cities, regions, and development processes. The knowledge domain of planning includes social, economic, technological, environmental, and political systems that continue to evolve and expand rapidly. Understanding these systems is an inter-disciplinary endeavor at the scale of several academic fields. The wide range of topics considered by planning educators and practitioners are often based on varying definitions of "planning" and modes of planning practice. This unique book discusses various elements and contributions to urban planning research to show that seemingly disparate topics do in fact intersect and together, contribute to ways of understanding urban planning. The objective is not to discuss how to "do" research, but rather, to explore the context of urban planning scholarship with implications for the planning academy and planning practice. This edited volume includes chapters contributed by a diverse range of planning scholars who consider the corpus of planning scholarship both historically and critically in their area of expertise. It is essential reading for students of planning research and planning theory from around the world.
| Author | : Denise Campbell |
| Publisher | : Urban Soul |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2014-11-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 159983295X |
In Katrina Blues, sparks fly when Deni Richards, a Los Angeles Attorney, meets Coleman Blue, a gorgeous, displaced New Orleans jazz saxophonist, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. At first glance they re complete opposites, but tragedy brings these two opposites together to find common ground in love. At forty-six, Glenda Dixon is about to experience A Change of Life. Her perfectly calculate life is thrown into a tailspin when she announces to her husband of twenty-seven years that she s expecting her first baby, and he announces that he is having an affair and plans to file for divorce. With all that going now, is a new man one ten years her junior one change too many? Successful, accomplished, and single, Morgan feels her biological clock ticking and pressures from family and peers to choose a man and settle down. She wanted to be free, but no alone. Her fear of commitment leads her to become involved with three men at the same time. There s Bruce, a sexy police officer and Troy, who embodies the irresistible and alluring thug life. Then there s Isaiah, who appears to be her soul mate, or so it seems. Will passion and excitement find her wrapped up in Something Hot?
| Author | : Jacob Wagner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2014-06-11 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1317981472 |
Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized. Rather than defining the disaster recovery process as simply a matter of rebuilding the existing city, these voices called for a more radical rethinking of the city’s physical, social and environmental systems. This idea of disaster as an opportunity for urban restructuring is a hallmark of a "design moment." Design moments are different from the incremental process of urban growth and development. Instead of gradual growth and change, design moments present the opportunity for a significant restructuring of urban form that can shape the city for decades to come. As such, a design moment presents a critical juncture in the historical growth and development of a city. In this book we explore the question: what does urban design have to do with a disaster like Hurricane Katrina? Focused on New Orleans, the authors explore different dimensions of the post-disaster design moment, including the politics of physical redevelopment, the city’s history and identity, justice and the image of the city, demolition and housing development, and the environmental aspects of the recovery process. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Design.
| Author | : Todd C. Shaw |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2009-09-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822390957 |
In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post–Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing a wide range of grassroots community-housing initiatives intended to revitalize Detroit’s failing urban center and aid its impoverished population, he investigates why certain collective actions have far-reaching effects while others fail to yield positive results. What emerges is EBAM (Effective Black Activism Model), Shaw’s detailed political model that illuminates crucial elements of successful grassroots activism, such as strong alliances, strategic advantages, and adaptive techniques. Shaw uses the tools of social movement analysis, including the quantitative analysis of budgets, electoral data, and housing statistics, as well as historical research and personal interviews, to better understand the dilemmas, innovations, and dynamics of grassroots activism. He begins with a history of discriminatory housing practices and racial divisions that deeply affected Detroit following the Second World War and set the stage for the election of the city’s first black mayor, Coleman Young. By emphasizing downtown redevelopment, Mayor Young’s administration often collided with low-income housing advocates. Only through grassroots activism were those advocates able to delay or derail governmental efforts to demolish low-income housing in order to make way for more upscale development. Shaw then looks at present-day public housing activism, assessing the mixed success of the nationally sponsored HOPE VI project aimed at fostering home ownership in low-income areas. Descriptive and prescriptive, Now Is the Time! traces the complicated legacy of community activism to illuminate what is required for grassroots activists to be effective in demanding public accountability to poor and marginalized citizens.
