Shantytown, USA : : Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor /

Shantytown, USA : : Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor / / Lisa Goff.

Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Goff, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 21 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Walden, a Shanty or a House?
  • 2. Shanties on the Western Frontier
  • 3. Shantytowns on the Urban Frontier
  • 4. A Working-Poor Ideology of Dwelling
  • 5. Squatter Sovereignty: Shantytown’s Broadway Debut
  • 6. Transformed by Art and Journalism
  • 7. African-American Shantytowns 1860–1940
  • 8. Depression-Era Shantytowns
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits
  • Index

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