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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A moving ethnographic account of Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuilding their lives away from the Gulf Coast Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Bonnie Thornton DillAcknowledgments1. 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. Miller3. 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 Litt9. 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 Weber14. Community Organizing in the Katrina Diaspora: Race, Gender, and the Case of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund (Rachel E. Luft)Author BiosIndex...
