Reckoning with Homelessness / / Kim Hopper.
"It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."-Homeless woman in Grand Central StationKim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of homelessness in the United States. In this powe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: CLASSIFICATION AND HIS TORY
- 1. This Business of Taking Stock
- 2. Unearned Keep: From Almshouse to Shelter in New York City
- PART II: FIELDWORK AND FRAMEWORK
- Introduction: Ethnography in the Annals of Homelessness
- 3. Streets, Shelters, and Flops: An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Men, 1979-1982
- 4. The Airport as Home
- 5. Out for the Count: The Census Bureau's 1990 S-Night Enumeration
- 6. Homelessness and African American Men
- PART III: ADVOCACY AND ENGAGEMENT
- 7. Negotiating Settlement: Advocacy for the Homeless Poor in the United States, 1980-1995
- 8. Limits to Witnessing: From Ethnography to Engagement
- Notes
- References
- Index