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The Price of Poverty
2003
Overview
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 Povertyoffers 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?
Publisher
University of California Press,Univ. of California Press
Subject
/ barrios
/ Cultural
/ Culture
/ East Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions
/ East Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations
/ Hispanic American neighborhoods
/ Hispanic American neighborhoods -- California -- Case studies
/ latinos
/ mexican american communities
/ Mexican Americans -- California -- East Los Angeles -- Economic conditions
/ Mexican Americans -- California -- San Jose -- Economic conditions
/ Poor
/ poverty
/ San Jose
/ San Jose (Calif.) -- Economic conditions
/ San Jose (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
/ U.S.A
/ Urban poor -- California -- East Los Angeles
ISBN
0520227565, 9780520227569, 9780520238893, 0520238893, 0520937279, 9780520937277
