Lexington Books
Pages: 262
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978-1-7936-1013-3 • Hardback • November 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-1014-0 • eBook • November 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Jennifer Trivedi is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and core faculty member of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware.
Dedication
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi, and the Past
Chapter 1: Setting the Scene
Chapter 2: Hurricane History
Chapter 3: Hurricane Katrina
Chapter 4: Trying to Go Home
Chapter 5: Recovering Over the Long Haul
Conclusions
Bibliography
About the Author
Jennifer Trivedi, in Mississippi after Katrina, takes the reader to ground zero and ground level of Hurricane Katrina, documenting, through careful ethnographic and documentary research, the events in Biloxi, Mississippi, from the first warnings, to the trauma of the storm itself, through the immediate aftermath, and into the next decade of recovery. Trivedi captures the experiences, concerns, and drama of regular folks caught in an unprecedented disaster, while also framing those experiences within the larger structural issues of race, class, and inequalities of coastal Mississippi. It is a spellbinding and wholly timely analysis of how natural disasters are not always natural.
— Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi