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This book 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. 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 team's 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 book's lyrical, cinematically vivid style makes it appealing both for college social science courses and for the general public.
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Family, Hispanic American families, Sex role, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Urban poor, Kinship, New york (n.y.), social conditions, Poor, Families, Familles, Familles américaines d'origine latino-américaine, Pauvres, Rôle selon le sexe, Parenté, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Minority Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, Economic historyShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side
2019, Taylor & Francis Group
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King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side
2018, Taylor & Francis Group
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0429968000 9780429968006
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King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side
2018, Taylor & Francis Group
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King Kong on 4th Street: Families and the Violence of Poverty on the Lower East Side (Institutional Structures of Feeling)
January 1, 1998, Westview Press
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081332937X 9780813329376
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King Kong on 4th Street: families and the violence of poverty on the Lower East Side
1997, Westview Press
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"When I think of the Lower East Side, I think of Luz."
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