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Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders : homeless in San Francisco / Teresa Gowan.
Van Pelt Library HV4506.S355 G69 2010
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gowan, Teresa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeless persons--California--San Francisco.
- Homeless persons.
- Homeless men--California--San Francisco.
- Homeless men.
- Homelessness--California--San Francisco.
- Homelessness.
- California--San Francisco.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Backstories
- Urban ethnography beyond the culture wars
- Managing homelessness in the United States
- The street : watch out, San Francisco! Ain't gonna get no peace
- Moorings : some other kind of life
- Word on the street : no one loves a loser
- The new hobos
- Rabble management : like I need more drugs in my life?
- The homeless archipelago : a little room for myself
- The old runaround : class cleansing in San Francisco
- The road to Nowheresville.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816648696
- 0816648697
- 9780816669677
- 0816669678
- OCLC:
- 475453762
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