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Author: Roberto Aspholm Publisher: Studies in Transgression ISBN: 9780231187732 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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Views from the Streets explains the dramatic transformation of black street gangs on Chicago's South Side during the early twenty-first century. Drawing on years of community work and in-depth interviews with gang members, Roberto R. Aspholm sheds new light on why gang violence persists and what might be done to address it.
Author: Roberto Aspholm Publisher: Studies in Transgression ISBN: 9780231187732 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
Views from the Streets explains the dramatic transformation of black street gangs on Chicago's South Side during the early twenty-first century. Drawing on years of community work and in-depth interviews with gang members, Roberto R. Aspholm sheds new light on why gang violence persists and what might be done to address it.
Author: Teresa Gowan Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 0816648697 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 367
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Gowan shows some of the diverse ways that men on the street in San Francisco struggle for survival, autonomy, and self-respect. Living for weeks at a time among homeless men--working side-by-side with them as they collected cans, bottles, and scrap metal; helping them set up camp; watching and listening as they panhandled and hawked newspapers; and accompanying them into soup kitchens, jails, welfare offices, and shelters--Gowan immersed herself in their routines, their personal stories, and their perspectives on life on the streets. She observes a wide range of survival techniques, from the illicit to the industrious, from drug dealing to dumpster diving. She also discovered that prevailing discussions about homelessness and its causes--homelessness as pathology, homelessness as moral failure, and homelessness as systemic failure--powerfully affect how homeless people see themselves and their ability to change their situation.
Author: Mike Yankoski Publisher: Multnomah ISBN: 030756343X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 258
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An updated and expanded edition of the gritty, challenging, and utterly captivating portait of the homeless crisis. Ever Wonder What it Would Be Like to Live Homeless? Mike Yankoski did more than just wonder. By his own choice, Mike's life went from upper-middle class plush to scum-of-the-earth repulsive overnight. With only a backpack, a sleeping bag and a guitar, Mike and his traveling companion, Sam, set out to experience life on the streets in six different cities—from Washington D.C. to San Diego— and they put themselves to the test. For more than five months the pair experienced firsthand the extreme pains of hunger, the constant uncertainty and danger of living on the streets, exhaustion, depression, and social rejection—and all of this by their own choice. They wanted to find out if their faith was real, if they could actually be the Christians they said they were apart from the comforts they’d always known…to discover first hand what it means to be homeless in America. What you encounter in these pages will radically alter how you see your world—and may even change your life.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309038324 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 257
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There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Author: Brandon Andrew Robinson Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520299272 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 249
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives. Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in central Texas, Coming Out to the Streets looks into the LGBTQ youth's lives before they experience homelessness—within their families, schools, and other institutions—and later when they navigate the streets, deal with police, and access shelters and other services. Through this documentation, Brandon Andrew Robinson shows how poverty and racial inequality shape the ways that the LGBTQ youth negotiate their gender and sexuality before and while they are experiencing homelessness. To address LGBTQ youth homelessness, Robinson contends that solutions must move beyond blaming families for rejecting their child. In highlighting the voices of the LGBTQ youth, Robinson calls for queer and trans liberation through systemic change.
Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 1429920602 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 312
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Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he still feels unfulfilled; something is missing from his life. Hadley is an angry young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working, and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear. One of the earliest books that Dick ever wrote, and the only novel that has never been published, Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley's descent into depression and madness, and out the other side. Most known in his lifetime as a science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick is growing in reputation as an American writer whose powerful vision is an ironic reflection of the present. This novel completes the publication of his canon. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Keidrain Brewster Publisher: ISBN: 9781737228905 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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From the Streets to the Suites takes readers on Keidrain Brewster's journey as he navigates the ups and downs of learning a new skill and then turning it into a business venture. Lessons are redeemed through unexpected interactions and seemingly unimportant events as he navigates himself to the rocky road of entrepreneurship. His perseverance and ability to see opportunity help him lift himself higher and higher until he is no longer in the streets but now, looking over his city from the suites. Keidrain describes the epiphanies that took him to new heights not only in his days as a commercial driving employee but also as a new business owner. A real, honest, and bluntly told adventure that is sure to help anyone understand why keeping your eyes and mind open can help propel you to unthinkable peaks.
Author: Roberto Aspholm
Author: Roberto Aspholm
Author: Teresa Gowan
Author: Cherie A. Peters
Author: Mike Yankoski
Author: Jason Grossman
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Brandon Andrew Robinson
Author: Philip K. Dick
Author: Keidrain Brewster
Author: Thomas Park Clement