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Tell Them Who I Am

The Lives of Homeless Women

By: Elliot Liebow

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The Lives of Homeless Women

By: Elliot Liebow

One of the very best things ever written about homeless people in the nation."—Jonathan Kozol.

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Penguin

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014024137X

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9780140241372

Tally's Corner

A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

By: Elliot Liebow

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Tally's Corner

A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

By: Elliot Liebow

The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic selling more than one million copies, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis--that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior--and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families. The debate has raged up to the present day. Yet Liebow's shadow theory of values--especially the values of poor, urban, black men--remains the single most parsimonious account of the reasons why the behavior of the poor appears to be at odds with the values of the American mainstream. While Elliot Liebow's vivid narrative of "street-corner" black men remains unchanged, the new introductions to this long-awaited revised edition bring the book up to date. Wilson and Lemert describe the debates since 1965 and situate Liebow's classic text in respect to current theories of urban poverty and race. They account for what Liebow might have seen had he studied the street corner today after welfare has been virtually ended and the drug economy had taken its toll. They also take stock of how the new global economy is a source of added strain on the urban poor. Discussion of field methods since the 1960s rounds out the book's new coverage.

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228

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742528960

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9780742528963

Tally's Corner

A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

By: Elliot Liebow,William Julius Wilson

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Tally's Corner

A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

By: Elliot Liebow,William Julius Wilson

The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic selling more than one million copies, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis—that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior—and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families. The debate has raged up to the present day. Yet Liebow's shadow theory of values—especially the values of poor, urban, black men—remains the single most parsimonious account of the reasons why the behavior of the poor appears to be at odds with the values of the American mainstream. While Elliot Liebow's vivid narrative of "street-corner" black men remains unchanged, the new introductions to this long-awaited revised edition bring the book up to date. Wilson and Lemert describe the debates since 1965 and situate Liebow's classic text in respect to current theories of urban poverty and race. They account for what Liebow might have seen had he studied the street corner today after welfare has been virtually ended and the drug economy had taken its toll. They also take stock of how the new global economy is a source of added strain on the urban poor. Discussion of field methods since the 1960s rounds out the book's new coverage.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0585479194

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Tell Them Who I Am

The Lives of Homeless Women

By: Elliot Liebow

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The Outside

Migration as Life in Morocco

By: Alice Elliot

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The Outside

Migration as Life in Morocco

By: Alice Elliot

What does migration look like from the inside out? In The Outside, Alice Elliot decenters conventional approaches to migration by focusing on places of departure rather than arrival and rethinks migration from the perspective of those who have not (yet) left. Through an intimate ethnography of towns and villages notorious in Morocco for their striking emigration to "the outside," Elliot traces the powerful ways migration permeates life: as brutal bureaucratic machinery administering hope and despair, as intimate force crisscrossing kinship relations and bonds of love and care, as imaginative horizon of the self and of the future. Challenging dominant understandings of migration and their deadly consequences by centering non-migrants' sharp theorizations and intimate experiences of "the outside," Elliot recasts migration as a deeply relational entity, and attends to the ethnographic, conceptual, and political imagination required by the constitutive relationship between migration and life.

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205

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Indiana University Press

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0253054753

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9780253054753

A Practical Guide To The Conduct Of Field Research In The Social Sciences

By: Elliot J. Feldman

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A Practical Guide To The Conduct Of Field Research In The Social Sciences

By: Elliot J. Feldman

This book offers students in the social sciences simply stated, direct guidance in defining problems for research and in organizing and conducting a research program. Confronting philosophical and practical problems, it will serve both graduate and undergraduate students well, providing the former with assistance in preparing their theses and informing the latter on how to develop research papers. Dr. Feldman addresses basic questions about topic selection, interviewing, surveys, documentation, and other research methods. While his emphasis is on comparative research, any student pursuing field research in political science, sociology, anthropology, geography, social psychology, and other branches of the social sciences will find the book helpful. The concentration on data collection, rather than analysis, will make it particularly useful for those undertaking a research project for the first time.

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160

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Routledge

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0429728603

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9780429728600

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Tell Them Who I Am

Tell Them Who I Am

Tally's Corner

Tally's Corner

Tally's Corner

Tally's Corner

Tell Them Who I Am

Tell Them Who I Am

The Outside

The Outside

A Practical Guide To The Conduct Of Field Research In The Social Sciences

A Practical Guide To The Conduct Of Field Research In The Social Sciences

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