Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Weber, Lynn.
2. Peek, Lori A.
3. Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Description

1. xiii, 268 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. The Katrina bookshelf

Uniform title

1. Katrina bookshelf.

Subject

1. Refugees > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions
2. Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects
3. Disaster relief > Social aspects > United States
4. Survivors > United States
5. Disaster victims > United States > Social conditions
6. Internally displaced persons > United States > Social conditions
7. Cyclonic Storms > United States
8. Disasters > United States

Contents

1. Documenting displacement : an introduction / Lynn Weber and Lori Peek -- The research network / Lynn Weber -- Receiving communities / introduction by Lee M. Miller. They call it "Katrina fatigue" : displaced families and discrimination in Colorado / Lori Peek ; The basement of extreme poverty : Katrina survivors and poverty programs / Laura Lein ... [et al.] ; Living through displacement : housing insecurity among low-income evacuees / Jessica W. Pardee ; When demand exceeds supply : disaster response and the Southern political economy / Lynn Weber ; Katrina evacuee reception in rural East Texas : rethinking disaster "recovery" / Lee M. Miller ; Permanent temporariness : displaced children in Louisiana / Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek -- Social networks / introduction by Jacquelyn Litt. Help from family, friends, and strangers during Hurricane Katrina : finding the limits of social networks / Elizabeth Fussell ; "We need to get together with each other" : women's narratives of help in Katrina's displacement / Jacquelyn Litt ; The women of Renaissance village : from homes in New Orleans to a trailer park in Baker, Louisiana / Beverly J. Mason ; Twice removed : New Orleans Garifuna in the wake of Hurricane Katrina / Cynthia M. Garza ; After the flood : faith in the diaspora / Pamela Jenkins -- Charting a path forward / introduction by Lynn Weber. Community organizing in the Katrina diaspora : race, gender, and the case of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund / Rachel E. Luft.

Call number

1. Sc E 12-933

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Displaced : life in the Katrina diaspora / edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek ; with Social Science Research Council Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Imprint

1. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Series

1. The Katrina bookshelf
2. Katrina bookshelf.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Weber, Lynn.
2. Peek, Lori A.
3. Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

LCCN

1. 2011048526

ISBN

1. 9780292735774 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0292735774 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780292737648 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0292737645 (pbk. : alk. paper)
5. 9780292735781 (lib ebk)
6. 0292735782 (lib ebk)

Research call number

1. Sc E 12-933