LEADER 03780nam 2200601 450 001 9910807961603321 005 20230809234216.0 010 $a1-5017-0968-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501709685 035 $a(CKB)4340000000195323 035 $a(OCoLC)973733460 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65390 035 $a(DLC) 2017008749 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4982966 035 $a(DE-B1597)496468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501709685 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4982966 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11449354 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1040446 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000195323 100 $a20170216d2017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSinglewide $echasing the American dream in a rural trailer park /$fSonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 311 $a1-5017-1322-1 311 $a1-5017-1321-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : galvanized ghettoes -- The mobile home industrial complex -- Making ends meet, family finances -- The Illinois park : closer to the middle class -- The North Carolina parks : near ties that bind of kin and church -- The New Mexico parks : a dream rooted in place -- Youth and trailer park life -- Reforming the mobile home industrial complex -- Conclusion : family dreams and trailer park realities. 330 $aIn Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America's trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families' dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the "mobile home industrial complex" may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks' neighbors who live in conventional homes. 606 $aMobile home living$zUnited States 606 $aMobile home parks$zUnited States 606 $aRural poor$xHousing$zUnited States 606 $aHousing, Rural$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRural conditions 615 0$aMobile home living 615 0$aMobile home parks 615 0$aRural poor$xHousing 615 0$aHousing, Rural 676 $a333.33/8 700 $aSalamon$b Sonya$01659218 702 $aMacTavish$b Katherine$f1963- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807961603321 996 $aSinglewide$94027731 997 $aUNINA