Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

King Kong on 4th Street

Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side

• Gebundenes 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: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780367316488
• ISBN-10: 036731648X
• Artikelnr.: 57673682

Autorenporträt

The late Jagna Wojcicka Sharff taught anthropology at City College, City University of New York, and in its affiliated centre for Worker Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 You Can Hear the Birds Singing
2 Dancing
3 Homing Pigeons
4 A Gentle Young Man
5 Chulito Flying
6 Victoria's Baptism
Reflection 1: Small Creatures
7 Blue Bayou
Reflection 2: Slipknots and Lariats
8 A Dream -Come-True Apartment with a 1949 Stove
9 Summertime
10 Sometimes the War Close to Home Is the Most Difficult to See
11 The Day of the Big Gun
12 A Death Foretold
13 Settling a Blood Feud
14 King Kong on 4th Street
15 I
Miguel Valiente
16 Jail
Jail
All Your Life Jail
Epilogue: Walking My Baby