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Part I. The Nature of Lessons From Katrina 1. Editors' Introduction: Katrina and the Barefoot Scholars 2. Vulnerability+ Theory: The Integration of Community Disaster Vulnerability and Resiliency Theories 3. Structural Violence Inhibiting Restoration of Survivor 'Agency' after Katrina: Common Scenario of Disaster Recovery 4. Disaster Resilient Communities: A Systems Perspective 5. The Barefoot Scholars: How they were Deployed after Katrina Part II. Vulnerability 6a. Setting the stage for the Katrina catastrophe; environmental degradation, ignoring science, engineering miscalculation; and human's mismanagement 6b. The New Orleans Musicians Program 7. Hurricane Katrina 3 Centuries in the Making: The Catastrophe from a Historical Vantage Point 8. Social Capital in Crisis: the Complex Relationships between Community, Sociality, Inequality, and Resilience 9. Settlement Shifts in the Wake of Catastrophe 10. The Disaster Waiting to Happen: Gender, Vulnerability, and the Normative Disaster Paradigm in the Context of Post-Katrina New Orleans Part III. Resiliency 11. The Role of Faith-Based Charities in Resiliency: The United Methodist Church 12. Dynamics of Early Recovery in Two Historically Low-Income New Orleans' Neighborhoods of Treme and Central City 13. Reading through the storm: Literacy and disaster management in Louisiana 14. Resilience among Vulnerable Populations: The Neglected Role of Culture 15. The Resilience in the Shadows of Catastrophe: Addressing the Existence and Implications of Vulnerability in New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana Part IV. Conclusions and the Future of Vulnerability & Resiliency 16. Ground Zero: How Research as a Resident of a Community in Disaster Transforms the Researcher 17. Lessons Learned from New Orleans and Katrina