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Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery Among Vietnamese Americans by Mark J. V
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN-10
0871548720
ISBN-13
9780871548726
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235551528
Product Key Features
Book Title
Weathering Katrina : Culture and Recovery Among Vietnamese Americans
Number of Pages
166 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Emigration & Immigration, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-046288
Reviews
" Weathering Katrina is a very thoughtful and elegantly executed monograph by a master of the craft. It is social science at its best." -- Kai Erikson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies, Yale University, "Mark VanLandingham's book, Weathering Katrina , tells a fascinating story of how the Vietnamese community in New Orleans East survived a major natural disaster and thrived afterward. It makes a significant contribution to the literature on disasters, community resilience, and ethnic culture." --Min Zhou, professor of sociology and Asian American studies, University of California, Los Angeles, " Weathering Katrina is a very thoughtful and elegantly executed monograph by a master of the craft. It is social science at its best." -- Kai Erikson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies, Yale University "Mark VanLandingham's book, Weathering Katrina , tells a fascinating story of how the Vietnamese community in New Orleans East survived a major natural disaster and thrived afterward. It makes a significant contribution to the literature on disasters, community resilience, and ethnic culture." --Min Zhou, professor of sociology and Asian American studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Tenth Grade
Table Of Content
Contents List of Illustrations About the Author Acknowledgments Foreword by Carl L. Bankston III Introduction: Why Are the Vietnamese Doing So Well? Chapter 1. Who Are These People? A Brief History of Vietnamese New Orleanians (in collaboration with Hongyun Fu) Chapter 2. Data, Methods, and Research Strategy Chapter 3. Why Are the Vietnamese Doing So Well? A Framework and Assessment of Postdisaster Recovery Chapter 4. Why Are the Vietnamese Doing So Well? Explaining Differences in Postdisaster Recovery Chapter 5. Why Are the Vietnamese Doing So Well? Culture and Its Confounders Chapter 6. Cultural--and Noncultural--Influences on the Recovery of the Vietnamese American Community in Post-Katrina New Orleans Chapter 7. Summary and Conclusions: Why Are the Vietnamese Doing So Well? Notes References Index
Synopsis
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The principal Vietnamese-American enclave was a remote, low-income area that flooded badly. Many residents arrived decades earlier as refugees from the Vietnam War and were marginally fluent in English. Yet, despite these poor odds of success, the Vietnamese made a surprisingly strong comeback in the wake of the flood. In Weathering Katrina, public health scholar Mark VanLandingham analyzes their path to recovery, and examines the extent to which culture helped them cope during this crisis. Contrasting his longitudinal survey data and qualitative interviews of Vietnamese residents with the work of other research teams, VanLandingham finds that on the principal measures of disaster recovery--housing stability, economic stability, health, and social adaptation--the Vietnamese community fared better than other communities. By Katrina's one-year anniversary, almost 90 percent of the Vietnamese had returned to their neighborhood, higher than the rate of return for either blacks or whites. They also showed much lower rates of post-traumatic stress disorder than other groups. And by the second year after the flood, the employment rate for the Vietnamese had returned to its pre-Katrina level. While some commentators initially attributed this resilience to fairly simple explanations such as strong leadership or to a set of vague cultural strengths characteristic of the Vietnamese and other "model minorities", VanLandingham shows that in fact it was a broad set of factors that fostered their rapid recovery. Many of these factors had little to do with culture. First, these immigrants were highly selected--those who settled in New Orleans enjoyed higher human capital than those who stayed in Vietnam. Also, as a small, tightly knit community, the New Orleans Vietnamese could efficiently pass on information about job leads, business prospects, and other opportunities to one another. Finally, they had access to a number of special programs that were intended to facilitate recovery among immigrants, and enjoyed a positive social image both in New Orleans and across the U.S., which motivated many people and charities to offer the community additional resources. But culture--which VanLandingham is careful to define and delimit--was important, too. A shared history of overcoming previous challenges--and a powerful set of narratives that describe these successes; a shared set of perspectives or frames for interpreting events; and a shared sense of symbolic boundaries that distinguish them from broader society are important elements of culture that provided the Vietnamese with some strong advantages in the post-Katrina environment. By carefully defining and disentangling the elements that enabled the swift recovery of the Vietnamese in New Orleans, Weathering Katrina enriches our understanding of this understudied immigrant community and of why some groups fare better than others after a major catastrophe like Katrina.
LC Classification Number
F379
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