In Too Deep

Class and Mothering in a Flooded Community

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Rachel Kimbro: In Too Deep (2021, University of California Press)

278 pages

English language

Published May 8, 2021 by University of California Press.

ISBN:
978-0-520-37772-1
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reviewed In Too Deep by Rachel Kimbro

Gripping study of multiply-flooded upper middle class mothers

5 stars

Engaging, fluently-written work of narrative sociology, based on in-depth interviews with 30+ affluent mothers in an aspirational urban neighbourhood in Houston, Texas. Kimbro seeks an answer to why, despite everything they've been through, a majority of the mothers interviewed decided to remain in this community, despite its clear vulnerabilities. Accessible to a more general readership, without sacrificing academic rigour, and a useful insight into the social 'stickiness' of place, and how natural disasters (and, by extension, climate change) are experienced along intersecting axes of wealth, class, and gender.