Introduction: The "unprecedented" internal U.S. migrations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
The economic and environmental displacements during the great migration: precarious citizenship and Hurston's Their eyes were watching God
The environmental displacement of the Dust Bowl: from the Yeoman myth to collective respect and Babb's Whose names are unknown
The wartime displacement of Japanese American incarceration: disorientation and Otsuka's When the emperor was divine
The economic displacement of Mexican American migrant labor: disembodied criminality to embodied spirituality and Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus
Afterword: The mobility poor of Hurricane Katrina: salvaging the family and Ward's Salvage the bones.