Anthony Marcus

Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Buch

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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84545-050-2
EAN: 9781845450502
Produktnummer: 19825459
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 180 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 363 g
Gewicht: 363
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

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.