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Checkerboard Square - Culture And Resistance In A Homeless Community (Hardcover)
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Checkerboard Square - Culture And Resistance In A Homeless Community (Hardcover)
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During the past decade, homelessness became a widespread phenomenon
in the United States for the first time since the Great Depression.
The public frequently blamed the poor for their plight.
Journalistic and academic accounts, in contrast, often evoked
pathos and pity, regarding the homeless primarily as objects of
treatment and rehabilitation. David Wagner challenges both of these
dominant images, offering an ethnographic portrait of the poor that
reveals their struggle not only to survive but also to create
communities on the streets and to develop social movements on their
own behalf. Definitely not passive victims, the homeless of
Checkerboard Square survive within an alternative street culture,
with its own norms and social organization, in a world often hidden
from the view of researchers, journalists, and social workers.
Checkerboard Square reveals the daily struggle of street people to
organize their lives in the face of rejection by employers,
government, landlords, and even their own families. Looking beyond
the well-documented causes of homelessness such as lack of
affordable housing or unemployment, Wagner shows how the poor often
become homeless through resistance to the discipline of the
workplace, authoritarian families, and the bureaucratic social
welfare system. He explains why the crisis of homelessness is not
only about the lack of services, housing, and jobs but a result of
the very structure of the dominant institutions of work, family,
and public social welfare.
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