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Citizen Hobo : How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America by Todd DePastino (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226143783

ISBN-139780226143781

eBay Product ID (ePID)2421414

Product Key Features

Book TitleCitizen Hobo : How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America

Number of Pages350 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorTodd Depastino

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-154907

ReviewsDePastino offers a fascinating look at a little-known sector of the laboring class that often did not work. In so doing he contributes to a welcome trend in which historians are redirecting attention from the workplace to the community in order to understand more fully the texture of working-class life., This vivid narrative succeeds in provoking new questions about the role of homelessness in shaping American history.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal305.5/68

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Rise of Hobohemia, 1870-1920 1. "The Great Army of Tramps" The Making of America's Tramp Army Tasting from the "Fountain of Indolence": Origin Myths of Tramping 2. The Other Side of the Road "The Broken Home Circle" From Patriarch to Pariah "From the Fraternity of Haut Beaus" 3. "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!" The Opening of the Wageworkers' Frontier The Main Stem "(White) Man's Country" Hobosexuality Part II: Hobohemia and Homelessness in the Early Twentieth Century 4. The Politics of Hobohemia Organizing the Main Stem "The Song of the Jungles" 5. "A Civilization without Homes" Reforming the Main Stem The "Hotel Spirit" The Comic Tramp Part III: Resettling the Hobo Army, 1920-1980 6. The Decline and Fall of Hobohemia The Closing of the Wageworker's Frontier Contesting Hobohemia 7. Forgotten Men A New Deal for the American Homeless Folklores of Homelessness 8. Coming Home The Decline and Fall of Skid Row Dharma Bums and Easy Riders Part IV: The Enduring Legacy: Homelessness and American Culture Since 1980 9. Rediscovering Homelessness The New Homeless Romancing the Road, Surviving the Streets Notes Index

SynopsisIn the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship. In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes--with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers--became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo 's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "home" does more than chart the change from "homelessness" to "houselessness." In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation., In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America, forging a counterculture known as hobohemia. This work tells the epic story of hobohemia, drawing a new interpretation of the American century in the process.

LC Classification NumberHV4504.D47 2003