King Kong on 4th Street : families and the violence of poverty on the Lower East Side

著者

• Wojcicka Sharff, Jagna

書誌事項

King Kong on 4th Street : families and the violence of poverty on the Lower East Side

Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

（Institutional structures of feeling）

Westview Press, 1998

• : hc
• : pbk

タイトル別名

King Kong on Fourth Street

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hc ISBN 9780813329369

内容説明

This book chronicles an ethnographic teams involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City. Jagna Sharff focuses on a group of families who live within a radius of a few blocks of her storefront office, especially the children who come first to interact with the team. She contrasts her teams initial observations of how people grapple with daily life with the residents expressed hopes and dreams in a community lacking jobs but rife with underground activities. Through lively and interconnected stories, she traces over time the fate of the neighborhood and the outcomes for individual children and adults during an era when the local and national policy of the war on poverty was transmuted into a war against the poor. The books lyrical, cinematically vivid style makes it appealing both for college social science courses and for the general public. }In King Kong on 4th Street, Jagna Sharff chronicles an ethnographic teams involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City. Anchoring her observations in field notes, she recounts the joys, fears, and disappointments of daily life as well as the drama of large events. Arson, the murder of a popular local teenager, the mobbing of a grocery store as an act of retribution for his deathall are projected onto a canvas of shifting local and national policies toward poor people and neighborhoods.Sharff provides new insights into gender and family roles, how adaptations to available resources from the welfare state may shape the membership of households, and how children may be trained for specific adult roles that will advance the familys well-being. She also reveals how the underground economy, particularly the commerce in drugs whose profits are realized outside of the neighborhood, undermines neighborhood-wide solidarity and sends people scrambling against one another for jobs in the quasi-licit and illicit sector. Following the lives of a number of families into the next generation, Sharffs ethnographic team documents how external political decisions that change the war on poverty into a war on the poor affected them. Paramilitary sweeps of the neighborhood, in tandem with gentrification and declining social services, produce severe dislocations and relocation to homeless shelters, welfare hotels, and prisons. But the reality described is not all grim.The books vivid style shows that life is more than grim reality. People get real pleasure from raising children and taking part in the human drama around them. Kinfolk, real and fictive, keep each other afloat and reconnected to new neighborhoods and opportunities, including that of upward mobility through religious conversion. Adults and children achieve satisfaction and a measure of security through grit, wit, and acts of heroism and solidarity. }

目次

Introduction You Can Hear the Birds Singing Dancing Homing Pigeons A Gentle Young Man Chulito Flying Victorias Baptism Reflection 1: Small Creatures Blue Bayou Reflection 2: Slipknots and Lariats A Dream-Come-True Apartment with a 1949 Stove Summertime Sometimes the War Close to Home Is the Most Difficult to See The Day of the Big Gun A Death Foretold Settling a Blood Feud King Kong on 4th Street I, Miguel Valiente Jail, Jail, All Your Life Jail Epilogue: Walking My Baby

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813329376

内容説明

In King Kong on 4th Street, Jagna Sharff chronicles an ethnographic team's involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City. Anchoring her observations in field notes, she recounts the joys, fears, and disappointments of daily life as well as the drama of large events. Arson, the murder of a popular local teenager, the mobbing of a grocery store as an act of retribution for his death?all are projected onto a canvas of shifting local and national policies toward poor people and neighborhoods.Sharff provides new insights into gender and family roles, how adaptations to available resources from the welfare state may shape the membership of households, and how children may be trained for specific adult roles that will advance the family's well-being. She also reveals how the underground economy, particularly the commerce in drugs whose profits are realized outside of the neighborhood, undermines neighborhood-wide solidarity and sends people scrambling against one another for jobs in the quasi-licit and illicit sector.Following the lives of a number of families into the next generation, Sharff's ethnographic team documents how external political decisions that change the war on poverty into a war on the poor affected them. Paramilitary sweeps of the neighborhood, in tandem with gentrification and declining social services, produce severe dislocations and relocation to homeless shelters, welfare hotels, and prisons. But the reality described is not all grim.The book's vivid style shows that life is more than grim reality. People get real pleasure from raising children and taking part in the human drama around them. Kinfolk, real and fictive, keep each other afloat and reconnected to new neighborhoods and opportunities, including that of upward mobility through religious conversion. Adults and children achieve satisfaction and a measure of security through grit, wit, and acts of heroism and solidarity.

目次

Introduction -- You Can Hear the Birds Singing -- Dancing -- Homing Pigeons -- A Gentle Young Man -- Chulito Flying -- Victoria's Baptism -- Blue Bayou -- A Dream-Come-True Apartment with a 1949 Stove -- Summertime -- Sometimes the War Close to Home Is the Most Diffcult to See -- The Day of the Big Gun -- A Death Foretold -- Settling a Blood Feud -- King Kong on 4th Street -- I, Miguel Valiente -- Jail, Jail, All Your Life Jail -- Epilogue: Walking My Baby -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: Changes in the Patterns of Incarceration in New York State

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA49748120
• ISBN:
  • 0813329361
  • 081332937X
• LCCN: 97030479
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Boulder, Colo.
• ページ数/冊数: x, 258 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HQ557.N5
  • DC21 : 306.85/09747/1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Family -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Hispanic American families -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Urban poor -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Kinship -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA17177722