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Barcode30053003813741
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No362.5920973 MARK
Title Placeless : homelessness in the new gilded age / Patrick Markee.
Author Markee, Patrick, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 300-399
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003813741362.5920973 MARK12/11/2025 Available

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Personal Name Markee, Patrick, author.
Title Statement Placeless : homelessness in the new gilded age / Patrick Markee.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Brooklyn : Melville House Publishing, 2025.
Physical Description xvi, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliography (pages 309-334)
Formatted Contents Note Introduction: places and spaces -- The train tunnel: pathologizing homelessness -- The Lower East Side and Thompkins Square Park: the origins of modern mass homelessness -- Madison Square Park: criminalizing homelessness -- The South Bronx: the backlash era -- Bedford-Stuyvesant: record homelessness in the Luxury City -- The EAU: systemic racism and homelessness -- Bellevue: mental illness and homelessness -- City Hall: ideoloogy and homelessness -- Armories: labor and homelessness -- Three-quarter houses: "permanent housing" and homelessness -- Washington, DC and beyond: urban America and homelessness -- Neighborhoods and homelands: mass displacement and homeless -- Conclusion: placeless.
Summary, Etc. Millions of people are affected by the cruelty and neglect of homelessness, but the only thing politicians and media see is a social nuisacne, a matter of personal failure whose victims sould either be demonized or ignored. Informed by the Patrick Markee's own front-line experiences as an advocate for homeless people in New York City, Placeless combats the view with a thoughtful yet impassioned study of homelessness. Blending historical analysis, urban theory, and the latest policy research, Markee consdiers homelessness in America as a tragic yet inevitable consequence of economic and political shifts. At a moment where tabloids and politicians use homelessness as an excuse to whip up fear, Placeless is a powerful and moving account of an insidious social and moral problem - and a look at a possible way forward.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Homelessness New York (State) New York.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Homelessness United States.

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