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This moving ethnographic account of Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuilding their lives away from the Gulf Coast inaugurates The Katrina Bookshelf, a new series of books that will probe the long-term consequences of America’s worst natural disaster.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Bonnie Thornton Dill
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Documenting Displacement: An Introduction (Lynn Weber and Lori Peek)
  • 2. The Research Network (Lynn Weber)
  • Section I. Receiving Communities and Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
    • Introduction by Lee M. Miller
    • 3. They Call It "Katrina Fatigue": Displaced Families and Discrimination in Colorado (Lori Peek)
    • 4. The Basement of Extreme Poverty: Katrina Survivors and Poverty Programs (Laura Lein, Ron Angel, Julie Beausoleil, and Holly Bell)
    • 5. Living through Displacement: Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Evacuees (Jessica W. Pardee)
    • 6. When Demand Exceeds Supply: Disaster Response and the Southern Political Economy (Lynn Weber)
    • 7. Katrina Evacuee Reception in Rural East Texas: Rethinking Disaster "Recovery" (Lee M. Miller)
    • 8. Permanent Temporariness: Displaced Children in Louisiana (Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek)
  • Section II. Social Networks among Katrina's Displaced
    • Introduction by Jacquelyn Litt
    • 9. Help from Family, Friends, and Strangers during Hurricane Katrina: Finding the Limits of Social Networks (Elizabeth Fussell)
    • 10. "We need to get together with each other": Women's Narratives of Help in Katrina's Displacement (Jacquelyn Litt)
    • 11. The Women of Renaissance Village: From Homes in New Orleans to a Trailer Park in Baker, Louisiana (Beverly J. Mason)
    • 12. Twice Removed: New Orleans Garifuna in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (Cynthia Garza)
    • 13. After the Flood: Faith in the Diaspora (Pamela Jenkins)
  • Section III. Charting a Path Forward
    • Introduction by Lynn Weber
    • 14. Community Organizing in the Katrina Diaspora: Race, Gender, and the Case of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund (Rachel E. Luft)
  • Author Bios
  • Index

Displaced Life in the Katrina Diaspora

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2012
      ISBN13: 9780292737648, 978-0292737648
      ISBN10: 0292737645

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This moving ethnographic account of Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuilding their lives away from the Gulf Coast inaugurates The Katrina Bookshelf, a new series of books that will probe the long-term consequences of America’s worst natural disaster.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword by Bonnie Thornton Dill
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Documenting Displacement: An Introduction (Lynn Weber and Lori Peek)
      • 2. The Research Network (Lynn Weber)
      • Section I. Receiving Communities and Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
        • Introduction by Lee M. Miller
        • 3. They Call It "Katrina Fatigue": Displaced Families and Discrimination in Colorado (Lori Peek)
        • 4. The Basement of Extreme Poverty: Katrina Survivors and Poverty Programs (Laura Lein, Ron Angel, Julie Beausoleil, and Holly Bell)
        • 5. Living through Displacement: Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Evacuees (Jessica W. Pardee)
        • 6. When Demand Exceeds Supply: Disaster Response and the Southern Political Economy (Lynn Weber)
        • 7. Katrina Evacuee Reception in Rural East Texas: Rethinking Disaster "Recovery" (Lee M. Miller)
        • 8. Permanent Temporariness: Displaced Children in Louisiana (Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek)
      • Section II. Social Networks among Katrina's Displaced
        • Introduction by Jacquelyn Litt
        • 9. Help from Family, Friends, and Strangers during Hurricane Katrina: Finding the Limits of Social Networks (Elizabeth Fussell)
        • 10. "We need to get together with each other": Women's Narratives of Help in Katrina's Displacement (Jacquelyn Litt)
        • 11. The Women of Renaissance Village: From Homes in New Orleans to a Trailer Park in Baker, Louisiana (Beverly J. Mason)
        • 12. Twice Removed: New Orleans Garifuna in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (Cynthia Garza)
        • 13. After the Flood: Faith in the Diaspora (Pamela Jenkins)
      • Section III. Charting a Path Forward
        • Introduction by Lynn Weber
        • 14. Community Organizing in the Katrina Diaspora: Race, Gender, and the Case of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund (Rachel E. Luft)
      • Author Bios
      • Index

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