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Author Hopper, Kim.

Title Reckoning with homelessness / Kim Hopper
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003

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Description x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series The anthropology of contemporary issues
Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index
Subject Homeless persons -- United States -- Social conditions.
Homeless persons -- United States.
Homelessness -- United States.
Poor -- United States.
LC no. 2002011089
ISBN 0801440688 hardback alkaline paper
0801488346 paperback alkaline paper