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The Continuing Storm
Learning from Katrina
By Kai Erikson and Lori Peek
University of Texas Press
This final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon the lessons of Hurricane Katrina and what they reveal about our society and current cultural climate.
Caught in the Path of Katrina
A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects
By J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls
University of Texas Press
Drawing on the accounts of more than twenty-five hundred Katrina survivors, two researchers provide a rare longitudinal look at the hurricane’s financial, social, psychological, and physical impacts.
Recovering Inequality
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
University of Texas Press
This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.
Standing in the Need
Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina
University of Texas Press
This eloquent, in-depth account of an extended African American family’s grueling eight-year recovery from Katrina demonstrates how greater cultural understanding would enable disaster recovery organizations to better serve affected communities.
Left to Chance
Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
University of Texas Press
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.
Is This America?
Katrina as Cultural Trauma
By Ron Eyerman
University of Texas Press
Using cultural trauma theory, this book explores how a wide range of media and popular culture producers have challenged the meaning of Katrina, in which the massive failure of government officials to uphold the American social contract exposed the founda
Children of Katrina
By Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek
University of Texas Press
Following the lives of seven representative children and teens over several years, this engrossing book offers one of the only long-term studies of how children experience disasters and the personal and structural factors that aid or hinder their recovery
Displaced
Life in the Katrina Diaspora
Edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek
University of Texas Press
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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