Shantytown, USA Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor |
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| Author:
| Goff, Lisa |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-66045-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.