Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Av Anthony Marcus

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For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped.Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless “crisis” was driven as much by political misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt249 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieDislocations
Antal sidor180
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781845451011

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PrefaceIntroduction: Where Have All the Homeless Gone?Chapter 1. Who Are the Homeless, Really?Chapter 2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Performance of HomelessnessChapter 3. New York City and the Historiography of HomelessnessChapter 4. The Poverty of Poverty StudiesChapter 5. Shelterization: In the Land of the HomelessChapter 6. Doin’ It in the SystemChapter 7. The Black Family and HomelessnessChapter 8. Housing Panic and Urban PhysiocratsChapter 9. American Thatcherism: The Making and Unmaking of a CrisisBibliographyIndex