Reckoning with Homelessness
Kim Hopper(Author)
Cornell University Press
Published on 27. February 2003
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-8014-4068-7 (ISBN)
Description
Kim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to correct the problem of homelessness in the United States. In his book, he draws upon his dual strengths as anthropologist and advocate to provide a deeper understanding of the roots of homelessness. He also investigates the complex attitudes brought to bear on the issue since his pioneering fieldwork with Ellen Baxter in the 1980s helped put homelessness on the public agenda. Beginning with his own introduction to the problem in New York, Hopper uses ethnography, literature, history,and activism to place homelessness into historical context and to trace the process by which homelessness came to be recognized as an issue. He tells the largely neglected story of homelessness among African Americans and vividly portrays various sites of public homelessness, such as airports.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
18 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-4068-7 (9780801440687)
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Content
This business of taking stock; Unearned keep - from almshouse to shelter in New York City; Streets, shelters, and flops - an ethnographic study of homeless men, 1979-1982; The airport as home; Out for the count - the census bureau's 1990 s-night enumeration; Homelessness and African-American men; Negotiating settlement - advocacy for the homeless poor in the United States, 1980-1995; Limits to witnessing - from ethnography to engagement.