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Shantytown, USA : Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor / Lisa Goff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 21 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674968967
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.3/30973
LOC classification:
  • HD7287.96.U6 .G64 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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