" . . . provides a rare and well-documented view inside the world of under-housed men in New York City . . . [It] is an interesting and convincing book." · H-Urban For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 19994, 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. Anthony Marcus is an urban anthropologist from New York City, currently a senior lecturer in International Development at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He has done research in New York, Havana, Mexico City, and Nairobi and published extensively in anthropology and American history.
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Anthony Marcus is an urban anthropologist from New York City, currently a senior lecturer in International Development at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He has done research in New York, Havana, Mexico City, and Nairobi and published extensively in anthropology and American history.
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homeless gone, municipal shelter system, homeless crisis, new homelessness, housing loss, homeless policy, drill floor, kinship norms, municipal shelters, accumulation families, shelter residents, semipublic spaces, shelter life, poverty studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City, United States, African Americans, Lower East Side, Kim Hopper, New Deal, World War, Democratic Party, Tompkins Square Park, David Dinkins, East Village, John Dewey, Latin American, Reagan Revolution, Great Society, Salvation Army, Willie Horton, American Thatcherism, Dominican Republic, Jimmy Carter, Monika Beerle, Puerto Rican, Ronald Reagan, Rudolph Giuliani, Communist Party New!
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homeless gone, municipal shelter system, homeless crisis, new homelessness, housing loss, homeless policy, drill floor, kinship norms, municipal shelters, accumulation families, shelter residents, semipublic spaces, shelter life, poverty studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City, United States, African Americans, Lower East Side, Kim Hopper, New Deal, World War, Democratic Party, Tompkins Square Park, David Dinkins, East Village, John Dewey, Latin American, Reagan Revolution, Great Society, Salvation Army, Willie Horton, American Thatcherism, Dominican Republic, Jimmy Carter, Monika Beerle, Puerto Rican, Ronald Reagan, Rudolph Giuliani, Communist Party New!
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- The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington on 4 pages
- The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy by Lee Rainwater in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Negro Family in the United States (African American Intellectual Heritage) by Edward F. Frazier on page 102, and Back Matter
- The Shame of the Cities (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science) by Lincoln Steffens on page 55, and Back Matter
- Rituals Of Blood: The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson on page 100, and Back Matter
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