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Author Wojcicka Sharff, Jagna, author

Title King Kong on 4th Street : families and the violence of poverty on the lower East Side / Jagna Wojcicka Sharff
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Institutional structures of feeling
Institutional structures of feeling.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 You Can Hear the Birds Singing; 2 Dancing; 3 Homing Pigeons; 4 A Gentle Young Man; 5 Chulito Flying; 6 Victoria's Baptism; Reflection 1: Small Creatures; 7 Blue Bayou; Reflection 2: Slipknots and Lariats; 8 A Dream-Come-True Apartment with a 1949 Stove; 9 Summertime; 10 Sometimes the War Close to Home Is the Most Difficult to See; 11 The Day of the Big Gun; 12 A Death Foretold; 13 Settling a Blood Feud; 14 King Kong on 4th Street; 15 I, Miguel Valiente; 16 Jail, Jail, All Your Life Jail; Epilogue: Walking My Baby
Appendix A: MethodologyAppendix B: Changes in the Patterns of Incarceration in New York State; Notes; References; About the Book and Author; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version of record
Subject Families -- New York (State) -- New York
Hispanic American families -- New York (State) -- New York
Poor -- New York (State) -- New York
Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York
Kinship -- New York (State) -- New York
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Economic history
Families
Hispanic American families
Kinship
Poor
Sex role
Social conditions
SUBJECT Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429499456
0429499450
9780429968006
0429968000
9780429990168
0429990162