Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco
Awards:   Joint winner of ASA Douglas 2011 Joint winner of Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders 2011 Winner of ASA Park 2011
Author:   Teresa Gowan
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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Pages:   368
Publication Date:   28 July 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco


Awards

  • Joint winner of ASA Douglas 2011
  • Joint winner of Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders 2011
  • Winner of ASA Park 2011

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Author:   Teresa Gowan
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780816648696


ISBN 10:   0816648697
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   28 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of 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 Some Other Kind of Life, 4. Word on the Street No One Loves a Loser, 5. The New Hobos, Part III. Rabble Management Like I Need More Drugs in My Life?, 6. The Homeless Archipelago A Little Room for Myself, 7. The Old Runaround: Class Cleansing in San Francisco The Road to Nowheresville, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Reviews

<p> Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders is spectacular ethnography, fearlessly conducted by a 'small, white English woman' among homeless men in San Francisco's roughest neighborhoods. The big surprise is not the hostility of the police or the shortage of services, but the determination of so many of these men to build a career out of recycling trash. Gowan's respect for her subjects and her willingness to pitch in with the dirtiest of work-dumpster diving, for example-make this a gripping read as well as a powerful call to reassess how America treats its most despised and marginal people. --Barbara Ehrenreich


Author Information

Teresa Gowan is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.

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