Shantytown, USA : Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor / Lisa Goff.
2016
HD7287.96.U6 .G64 2016
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Shantytown, USA : Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor / Lisa Goff.
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9780674968967
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (320 p.) : 21 halftones
Item Number
10.4159/9780674968967 doi
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HD7287.96.U6 .G64 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.3/30973
Summary
Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America's urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. Walden, a Shanty or a House?
2. Shanties on the Western Frontier
3. Shantytowns on the Urban Frontier
4. A Working-Poor Ideology of Dwelling
5. Squatter Sovereignty: Shantytown's Broadway Debut
6. Transformed by Art and Journalism
7. African-American Shantytowns 1860-1940
8. Depression-Era Shantytowns
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
Contents
Preface
1. Walden, a Shanty or a House?
2. Shanties on the Western Frontier
3. Shantytowns on the Urban Frontier
4. A Working-Poor Ideology of Dwelling
5. Squatter Sovereignty: Shantytown's Broadway Debut
6. Transformed by Art and Journalism
7. African-American Shantytowns 1860-1940
8. Depression-Era Shantytowns
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index