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With vivid, firsthand accounts that illuminate the immediate, mid-range, and long-term effects of an unmitigated disaster, this book describes how the residents of two African American neighborhoods have experienced Katrina and the long road to recovery.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by Elijah Anderson
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: Water, Conversations, and Race
  • Part I: Navigating Contingency in Two Historic Neighborhoods
    • Chapter 1. "Katrina Takes Aim"
    • Chapter 2. Geographies of Class and Color
  • Part II: From Evacuees to Exiles
    • Chapter 3. Life on the Road
    • Chapter 4. From the Road to Exile
  • Part III: Traversing and Rebuilding
    • Chapter 5. It's Available, but Is It Accessible?
    • Chapter 6. Rebuilding in a Broken City
    • Chapter 7. "The Katrina Effect"
  • Epilogue: Making a Space for Chance
  • Notes
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/1/2015 12:09:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781477303849, 978-1477303849
      ISBN10: 1477303847

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With vivid, firsthand accounts that illuminate the immediate, mid-range, and long-term effects of an unmitigated disaster, this book describes how the residents of two African American neighborhoods have experienced Katrina and the long road to recovery.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Foreword by Elijah Anderson
      • Prologue
      • Introduction: Water, Conversations, and Race
      • Part I: Navigating Contingency in Two Historic Neighborhoods
        • Chapter 1. "Katrina Takes Aim"
        • Chapter 2. Geographies of Class and Color
      • Part II: From Evacuees to Exiles
        • Chapter 3. Life on the Road
        • Chapter 4. From the Road to Exile
      • Part III: Traversing and Rebuilding
        • Chapter 5. It's Available, but Is It Accessible?
        • Chapter 6. Rebuilding in a Broken City
        • Chapter 7. "The Katrina Effect"
      • Epilogue: Making a Space for Chance
      • Notes
      • Index

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