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King Kong On 4th Street Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

King Kong On 4th Street By Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

King Kong On 4th Street by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

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This book brings individual women, men, and children in the United States into view to show through stories that span a time from three to fifteen years that poor people's lives contain myriad sets of goals, paths, and outcomes, even within the dreary constraints of material poverty.

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King Kong On 4th Street: Families And The Violence Of Poverty On The Lower East Side by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

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

About Jagna Wojcicka Sharff

The late Jagna Wojcicka Sharff taught anthropology at City College, City University of New York, and in its affiliated centre for Worker Education.

Table of Contents

Introduction, 1 You Can Hear the Birds Singing, 2 Dancing, 3 Homing Pigeons, 4 A Gentle Young Man, 5 Chulito Flying, 6 Victoria's Baptism, Reflection 1: Small Creatures, 7 Blue Bayou, Reflection 2: Slipknots and Lariats, 8 A Dream -Come-True Apartment with a 1949 Stove, 9 Summertime, 10 Sometimes the War Close to Home Is the Most Difficult to See, 11 The Day of the Big Gun, 12 A Death Foretold, 13 Settling a Blood Feud, 14 King Kong on 4th Street, 15 I, Miguel Valiente, 16 Jail, Jail, All Your Life Jail, Epilogue: Walking My Baby

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NPB9780367316488
9780367316488
036731648X
King Kong On 4th Street: Families And The Violence Of Poverty On The Lower East Side by Jagna Wojcicka Sharff
Jagna Wojcicka Sharff
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-08-19
272
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