Times Talk Topics:Disaster Narratives of Survivorship

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Rivera, J.D., & Miller, D.S. (2007). Continually neglected:  Situating natural disasters in the African American experienceJournal of Black Studies, 37(4), 502-522.  Sage Premier database.


Lawson, E. (2010). A gender comparison of resiliency among older African American Katrina survivors. Western Journal Of Black Studies, 34(4), 457-470.


Otte, M. (2007). The mourning after: Languages of loss and grief in post-Katrina New Orleans. Journal Of American History, 94(3), 828-836.

 

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NOVA: "Storm That Drowned a City"

"Experts and eyewitnesses reconstruct the devastating floods that Hurricane Katrina unleashed on New Orleans. Aired November 22, 2005 on PBS." Click image for video web site.

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