Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

King Kong On 4th Street

Families And The Violence Of Poverty On The Lower East Side

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings individual women, men, and children in the United States into view to show through stories that span a time from three to fifteen years that poor people's lives contain myriad sets of goals, paths, and outcomes, even within the dreary constraints of material poverty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813329376
• ISBN-10: 081332937X
• Artikelnr.: 21239807

Autorenporträt

Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
You Can Hear the Birds Singing
Dancing
Homing Pigeons
A Gentle Young Man
Chulito Flying
Victoria's Baptism
Blue Bayou
A Dream
Come
True Apartment with a 1949 Stove
Summertime
Sometimes the War Close to Home Is the Most Diffcult to See
The Day of the Big Gun
A Death Foretold
Settling a Blood Feud
King Kong on 4th Street
I, Miguel Valiente
Jail, Jail, All Your Life Jail
Epilogue: Walking My Baby
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Changes in the Patterns of Incarceration in New York State