Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities--one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens--this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?
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"Masterful scholarship--detailed, insightful, and original. Dohan investigates the role that immigration plays in understanding Latino poverty in the United States. He also provides a nuanced and detailed analysis of neighborhood factors that help us better understand Latino poverty and how Latino residents navigate the world of low-skill work, resources, and life in the barrio."--Abel Valenzuela Jr., co-editor of Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
"A very timely study. At a time when the Latino population is rapidly growing in the U.S., Dohan provides us with one of the best and most poignant studies of the Mexican American Barrio. Based on rich data collected in two poor Mexican-American neighborhoods, this thoughtful and interesting book will draw a lot of attention both inside and outside of academia."--William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears
"With Dohan's book, we finally receive an in-depth understanding of the nuances of life inside the urban, often poor and working-class, Mexican-American communities. Urban ethnographic scholarship on the poor, dominated too long by the African-American experience for its questions, concerns and voices, now finally has a corrective and a complementary text."--Sudhir Venkatesh, author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
"A very timely study. At a time when the Latino population is rapidly growing in the U.S., Dohan provides us with one of the best and most poignant studies of the Mexican American Barrio. Based on rich data collected in two poor Mexican-American neighborhoods, this thoughtful and interesting book will draw a lot of attention both inside and outside of academia."--William Julius Wilson, author of When Work Disappears
"With Dohan's book, we finally receive an in-depth understanding of the nuances of life inside the urban, often poor and working-class, Mexican-American communities. Urban ethnographic scholarship on the poor, dominated too long by the African-American experience for its questions, concerns and voices, now finally has a corrective and a complementary text."--Sudhir Venkatesh, author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
About the Author
Daniel Dohan is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Increasingly, the Mexican American experience of poverty matters not only in the barrios but also for our nation as a whole and its future possibilities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
barrio complex, street corner day labor markets, illicit institutions, everyday barrio life, illicit workers, many barrio residents, corner tienda, illicit economy, aid reliance, welfare stigma, barrio poverty, aid receipt, everyday economic life, welfare reliance, illegal institutions, informal vendors, illegal earnings, illegal work, everyday dynamics, structural circumstances, informal workers, immigrant poverty, welfare use, welfare receipt, status adjustment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elm Street, San Jose, United States, Strong Road, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Mexican American, Illegal Routines, The Consequences of Illegal Work, Mexico City, Making Welfare Stigma, Ted Galindo, African American, Mike Gonzales, Rust Belt, Narcotics Anonymous, Santa Margarita, Dependent Children, General Assistance, Lawndale Court New!
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Increasingly, the Mexican American experience of poverty matters not only in the barrios but also for our nation as a whole and its future possibilities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
barrio complex, street corner day labor markets, illicit institutions, everyday barrio life, illicit workers, many barrio residents, corner tienda, illicit economy, aid reliance, welfare stigma, barrio poverty, aid receipt, everyday economic life, welfare reliance, illegal institutions, informal vendors, illegal earnings, illegal work, everyday dynamics, structural circumstances, informal workers, immigrant poverty, welfare use, welfare receipt, status adjustment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Elm Street, San Jose, United States, Strong Road, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Mexican American, Illegal Routines, The Consequences of Illegal Work, Mexico City, Making Welfare Stigma, Ted Galindo, African American, Mike Gonzales, Rust Belt, Narcotics Anonymous, Santa Margarita, Dependent Children, General Assistance, Lawndale Court New!
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