Where Have All the Homeless Gone? : : The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis / / Anthony Marcus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Marcus, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION 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 HOMELESSNESS -- Chapter 3 — NEW YORK CITY AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF HOMELESSNESS -- Chapter 4 — THE POVERTY OF POVERTY STUDIES -- Chapter 5 — SHELTERIZATION: IN THE LAND OF THE HOMELESS -- Chapter 6 — DOIN’ IT IN THE SYSTEM -- Chapter 7 — THE BLACK FAMILY AND HOMELESSNESS -- Chapter 8 — HOUSING PANIC AND URBAN PHYSIOCRATS -- Chapter 9 — AMERICAN THATCHERISM: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF A CRISIS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX