Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide
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Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide
（Documentary and reference guides）
Greenwood, c2012
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Bibliography: p. 375-377
Includes index
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Description
This book presents an unflinching investigation of homelessness in the United States-a problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago.
The terms historically used to describe them include "bums," "hoboes," "migrants," "street people," "transients," "tramps," and "vagrants." Just as varied as the words we have used to describe them are the reasons many people have found themselves living in the land of opportunity without permanent residence.
The book considers homelessness and its distinctive character in three periods of American history: the era of tramps and hoboes in the late 1800s-early 1900s, the era of transients and migrants in the 1930s, and the era of homeless and "street" people in the last 40 years. It clarifies the multiple meanings of the word "homeless" today and demonstrates that homelessness is a symptom of more than one problem, leading to confusion about the issue of homelessness and hampering attempts to reduce its occurrence. Author Neil Larry Shumsky, PhD, also postulates that the treatment of homelessness in England before the colonization of North America laid the foundation of pervasive American attitudes and practices.
Table of Contents
Reader's Guide to Documents and Sidebars
Introduction
Prologue: Vagabonds in England
Part I Words and Numbers
1. Words
2. Numbers
Part II Hoboes, Tramps, and Bums, 1790-1930
3. Ben Reitman Defines Hobo, Tramp, and Bum
4. Jack London Explains "the Rods"
5. Train Jumping
6. A Migrant Farm Worker
7. The Extent of the Problem, 1890-1925
8. Country Lodgings
9. The Stem, or Main Stem
10. The Hobo Jungle
11. "Tramp-Speak" and the Hobo Subculture
12. Hobo Songs
13. Hobo Politics
14. The Hobo College
15. Hobohemia Disappears
Part III Migrants and Transients, 1930-1960
16. On the Farm
17. In the City
18. Bonus Army
19. FERA and FTP
20. Bum Brigade
21. Squatters
22. Weedpatch Camp
23. Hooverville
24. Picking Grapes in Lodi
25. Arts and Culture
26. Liquidating the Federal Transient Program
Part IV Street People, Bag Ladies, and Homeless People
Defining Homelessness and Counting Homeless People
27. Charles Dickens Coins the Word
28. Congress Defines Homeless
29. Mitch Snyder Claims "Millions"
30. HUD Disagrees Sharply
31. Making Sense of the Conflict
32. The Number of Homeless
Who Are the Homeless?
33. An Overview of the Homeless Population Today
34. Special Populations of Homeless People
35. Homeless Children and Their Families
36. Homeless Veterans
37. Homeless People in Rural Areas
38. Homeless People of Color
39. Homeless Latinos and a Different Perspective
Contending with Homelessness
40. Staying Alive-Homeless People Cope
41. Housing for the Homeless
42. Criminalizing the Homeless
43. Washington Takes the Lead
Bibliography
Index
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