Overview

This text focuses on the ways that the life chances of homeless people are very much determined by their positions in race, gender and ""family values"" hierarchies. The author traces the social and spatial consequences of valuing some kinds of people over others, using as a basis her own work on the homelessness in New York. She concludes that homelessness is not simply an economic predicament, but a cultural and moral location.

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. . . a short, highly readable study of how ideology works to reproduce social inequality . . . powerful social critique not likely to get a hearing in official policy circles. <br>- American Anthropologist <br> Joanne Passaro contributes to a more complex portrait of homelessness by laying out an impressive set of topics for consideration.... Passaro has laid some important and useful foundations for a more theoretical approach to the analysis of homelessness. <br>- Contemporary Sociology <br>

Author Information

Joanne Passaro is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Center for Liberal Studies at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY.

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