Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

xiii, 268 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Katrina bookshelf

Uniform Title

Katrina bookshelf.

Subject

• Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects
• Refugees > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions
• Internally displaced persons > United States > Social conditions
• Disaster victims > United States > Social conditions
• Disaster relief > Social aspects > United States
• Cyclonic Storms > United States
• Disasters > United States
• Survivors > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

Sc E 12-933

ISBN

• 9780292735774 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0292735774 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780292737648 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0292737645 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780292735781 (lib ebk)
• 0292735782 (lib ebk)

LCCN

2011048526

OCLC

761845164

Title

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

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

The Katrina bookshelf

Katrina bookshelf.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Weber, Lynn.

Peek, Lori A.

Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Research Call Number

Sc E 12-933