The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio
Daniel Dohan
Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities--one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens--this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?
Kateqoriyalar:
İl:
2003
Nəşr:
1
Nəşriyyat:
University of California Press
Dil:
english
Səhifələr:
314
ISBN 10:
1417520418
ISBN 13:
9781417520411
Fayl:
PDF, 1.68 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003