{"id":19,"date":"2013-11-25T20:02:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2024-04-07T23:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:36:38","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">This course has a lot of reading. \u00a0Fortunately, no one has to read all of it. \u00a0Besides<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" title=\"Library Reserve\" href=\"http:\/\/mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?page_id=45\">\u00a0Library Reserve<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0and <a title=\"Readings on the Web\" href=\"http:\/\/mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?page_id=134\">Web-based<\/a>\u00a0readings, each student is expected to read FIVE books in the course of the semester. \u00a0Everyone reads the first three books listed below. \u00a0Each student then reads one &#8220;A&#8221; and one &#8220;B&#8221; book, in teams. \u00a0Those teams present the book to the rest of the class &#8212; teaching them what it contains.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><em>(Don&#8217;t buy the &#8220;A&#8221; and &#8220;B&#8221; books before class starts; you don&#8217;t yet know your team assignment.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Everyone Reads:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Barbara Ehrenreich: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America<\/span>, 10<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Edition <i>(2011, Picador; ISBN 978-0312626686)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Vincent Lyon-Callo: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Inequality, Poverty, And Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry<\/span>\u00a02nd edition\u00a0<i>(2004, University of Toronto Press; ISBN 978-1442600867)<\/i><i><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Toni Flynn: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Finding My Way<\/span> <i>(1989\/2016, Wipf and Stock; ISBN 978-1498239998)<br \/>\n<strong>Back in print!! \u00a0Hooray!<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Group Book Presentations: Read one each from \u201cA\u201d and \u201cB\u201d <\/b><em>(you will be assigned specific books in class)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u201cA\u201d Books:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Lee Stringer: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Grand Central Winter<\/span>\u00a0 2nd edition\u00a0<i>(2010, Seven Stories Press; ISBN 978-1583229187)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Elliot Liebow: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tell Them Who I Am: Lives of Homeless Women<\/span> <i>(1995, Penguin; 978-0140241372)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Deborah Connolly: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Homeless Mothers: Face to Face with Women and Poverty<\/span> <i>(2002, Univ of Minnesota; ISBN 978-0816632824)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Mitchell Duneier: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sidewalk<\/span> <i>(2000, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 978-0374527259)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Forrest Stuart: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row<\/span> \u00a0<em>(2016, Chicago; ISBN: 978-0226566207)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jason Wasserman &amp; Jeffrey Clair: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness<\/span> <i>(2009, Lynne Rienner; 978-1588267016)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>\u201cB\u201d&#8211; ONE (history):<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Kenneth Kusmer: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History<\/span>\u00a0 <i>(2002, Oxford; ISBN 978-0195160963)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Kim Hopper: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reckoning With Homelessness<\/span> <i>(2003, Cornell; ISBN: 978-0801488344)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Matthew Desmond: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City<\/span>\u00a0<em>(2016, Broadway Books; ISBN:\u00a0978-0553447453)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>\u201cB\u201d&#8211; TWO (policy):\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Deborah Padgett\u00a0<em>et al<\/em>:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives<\/span>. \u00a0<em>(2016, Oxford; ISBN: 978-0199989805)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sasha Abramsky:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives<\/span>\u00a0<em>(2013, Nation Books; ISBN:\u00a0978-1568584607)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Andrew Heben:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tent City Urbanism: From Self-Organized Camps to Tiny House Villages<\/span>.\u00a0<em>(2014, Village Collaborative; ISBN: 978-0692248058)<br \/>\n<i>Last year,\u00a0 the bookstore had trouble getting this book, so you might try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevillagecollaborative.net\/book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the author&#8217;s website<\/a>\u00a0. Or you can buy it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/-9780692248058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powell&#8217;s Books<\/a>\u00a0or read a copy on\u00a0<a title=\"Library Reserve\" href=\"http:\/\/mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?page_id=45\">Library Reserve.<\/a><\/i><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Irene Glasser &amp; Rae Bridgman:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness<\/span>\u00a0<em>(1999, Berghahn Books; ISBN 978-1571810977)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>This is an excellent summary of what was written about homelessness through the late 1990s.\u00a0 That era saw many excellent research projects and transformed our understanding of homelessness as a social phenomenon.\u00a0 It is, however, now a bit dated.\u00a0 This and Gowan&#8217;s book (next below) provide a very clear grounding in anthropological approaches to homelessness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>We will read a couple of chapters from this book on <a href=\"http:\/\/mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?page_id=45\">Library Reserve<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teresa Gowan: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco<\/span>\u00a0<i>(2010, Univ of Minnesota; ISBN: 978-0816669677)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>This is a wonderful book. \u00a0Its second chapter is one of the best analyses I&#8217;ve ever read about how different ways of thinking and speaking about homelessness have consequences for social policy, for charity, and for street life. \u00a0It is, however, a bit too dense for typical undergraduates. \u00a0Read for extra credit if you wish.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Craig Willse:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States<\/span>.\u00a0<em>(2015, Univ of Minnesota; ISBN: 978-0816693481)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>This is an important book that contains information about recent developments in what the author (rightly) calls &#8220;the homeless management industry&#8221;.\u00a0 It is, however, highly ideological and almost unreadable &#8212; albeit valuable.\u00a0 Undergraduate students who want to read it should ask for guidance about which sections to read and which to avoid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Good books we&#8217;ve used in past semesters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Morrell: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Voices from the Street<\/span> <i>(2007, Gray Sunshine; 978-0976926160)<br \/>\nThe bookstore has trouble getting this book. \u00a0Buy it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/-9780976926160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at Powells<\/a>\u00a0or read a copy on\u00a0<a title=\"Library Reserve\" href=\"http:\/\/mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?page_id=45\">Library Reserve.<\/a>(The book\u00a0supports the <a href=\"http:\/\/sistersoftheroad.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sisters of the Road Caf\u00e9<\/a> in Portland, Oregon.\u00a0 You can write them for a copy.)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Kenan Heise: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Book of the Poor: Who They Are, What They Say, and How To End Their Poverty<\/span> <i>(2011, Marian Street Press; \u00a0ISBN 978-1936863334)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Eden\u00a0&amp; Luke Schaefer:\u00a0$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America\u00a0<em>(2015:\u00a0Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 978-0544303188)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Daniel Kerr: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland<\/span>, Ohio <i>(2011: U. Mass: ISBN 978-1558498495)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>James Wright <i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless<\/span>\u00a0 <i>(1998: Aldine; ISBN 978-0202306148)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ingred Gould Ellen &amp; Brendan O&#8217;Flaherty, eds.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How to House the Homeless<\/span> <i>(2010, Russell Sage;\u00a0978-0871544544) \u00a0<\/i>[just the intro &amp; essays on housing policy]<\/li>\n<li>Donald W. Burnes &amp; David L. 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