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Title Invisible in Austin : life and labor in an American city / edited by Javier Auyero ; with an afterword by Loïc Wacquant
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015
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Contents Introduction : know them well /Javier Auyero -- Austin, Texas, in sociohistorical context / Maggie Tate -- Santos : the gold hunter / Jacinto Cuvi -- Clarissa : "a woman who fell on hard times" / Kristine Kilanski -- Inés : discipline, surveillance, and mothering in the margins / Jessica Dunning-Lozano -- Chip : the cost(s) of chasing the American dream / Eric Enrique Borja -- Raven : "the difference between a cocktail waitress and a stripper? Two weeks" / Caitlyn Collins -- Kumar : driving in the nighttime / Katherine Jensen -- Ethan : a product of the service industry / Katherine Sobering -- Keith : a musician at the margins / Amias Maldonado -- Xiomara : working toward home / Jennifer Scott -- Ella : fighting to save a few / Pamela Neumann -- Manuel : the luxury of defending yourself / Marcos Pérez -- Afterword : plumbing the social underbelly of the dual city / Loïc Wacquant
Summary Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along with wealth and material abundance in contemporary Austin. Rich and poor residents lead increasingly separate lives as growing socioeconomic inequality underscores residential, class, racial, and ethnic segregation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Marginality, Social -- Texas -- Austin
Poor -- Texas -- Austin
Minorities -- Texas -- Austin
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Economic history
Marginality, Social
Minorities
Poor
Social conditions
Randgruppe
Minderheit
Armut
Soziale Situation
Wirtschaftliche Lage
SUBJECT Austin (Tex.) -- Social conditions
Austin (Tex.) -- Economic conditions
Subject Texas -- Austin
Austin, Tex.
Form Electronic book
Author Auyero, Javier, editor.
ISBN 9781477303665
1477303669
9781477303672
1477303677