Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders : homeless in San Francisco / Teresa Gowan.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980's at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to compassion fatigue and then condemnation. Debates around the problem of homelessness-often set in terms of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system-have come to profoundly shape how homeless people survive and make sense of their plights. In Hobos, Hustlers, and Ba

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sin, Sickness, and the System; Part I: BACKSTORIES; 1. Urban Ethnography beyond the Culture Wars; 2. Managing Homelessness in the United States; Part II: THE STREET; Watch Out, San Francisco! Ain't Gonna Get No Peace; 3. Moorings; 4. Word on the Street; 5. The New Hobos; Part III: RABBLE MANAGEMENT; Like I Need More Drugs in My Life?; 6. The Homeless Archipelago; 7. The Old Runaround: Class Cleansing in San Francisco; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4635-3

0-8166-7354-3

OCLC:

650308397