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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xvi
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  1. 1. Documenting Displacement: An Introduction
  2. pp. 1-20
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  1. 2. The Research Network
  2. pp. 21-24
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  1. I. Receiving Communities: Introduction
  2. pp. 25-30
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  1. 3. They Call It "Katrina Fatigue": Displaced Families and Discrimination in Colorado
  2. pp. 31-46
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  1. 4. The Basement of Extreme Poverty: Katrina Survivors and Poverty Programs
  2. pp. 47-62
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  1. 5. Living through Displacement: Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Evacuees
  2. pp. 63-78
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  1. 6. When Demand Exceeds Supply: Disaster Response and the Southern Political Economy
  2. pp. 79-103
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  1. 7. Katrina Evacuee Reception in Rural East Texas: Rethinking Disaster "Recovery"
  2. pp. 104-118
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  1. 8. Permanent Temporariness: Displaced Children in Louisiana
  2. pp. 119-144
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  1. II. Social Networks: Introduction
  2. pp. 145-149
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  1. 9. Help from Family, Friends, and Strangers during Hurricane Katrina: Finding the Limits of Social Networks
  2. pp. 150-166
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  1. 10. "We need to get together with each other": Women's Narratives of Help in Katrina's Displacement
  2. pp. 167-182
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  1. 11. The Women of Renaissance Village: From Homes in New Orleans to a Trailer Park in Baker, Louisiana
  2. pp. 183-197
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  1. 12. Twice Removed: New Orleans Garifuna in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
  2. pp. 198-217
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  1. 13. After the Flood: Faith in the Diaspora
  2. pp. 218-230
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  1. III. Charting a Path Forward: Introduction
  1. 14. Community Organizing in the Katrina Diaspora: Race, Gender, and the Case of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund
  2. pp. 233-256
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  1. Author Bios
  2. pp. 257-260
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 261-268
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