Traveling light : on the road with America's poor / / Kath Weston

• Autore: Weston Kath <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Beacon Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/690973
• Soggetto topico: Poor - United States; Poverty - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Description and travel
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262).
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Freedom in My Pocket -- It's a Poor Rat That's Got But One Hole: An Introduction to Living Poor in a Rich Country -- I. When the Desert Fails to Bloom: Albuquerque to Missoula via Vegas -- Pennies from Heaven -- Final Call for Socorro, Truth or Consequences, Hatch, Las Cruces . . . -- Everybody Out! Hands Up against the Bus! -- The Trucker's Lament -- Keep Your Eyes on the Burrito -- Those Fools up at the VA -- Who You Calling "Food Stamps"? -- Next Stop, Sin City -- Wait Training -- The Trash Bag Racer Rally and Other Extreme Sports -- Fight! -- You Don't Say -- Already Got a Job and a Lot of Good It Done Me -- The Singing Bus -- II. Leaving the City of Cranes: Boston to Milwaukee in Two Alimentary Acts -- Awash in a Great Green Sea -- Master and Commander -- I Just Hate to Travel Like This -- Y'all Shouldn't Have Ate That Chicken -- Too-Tired Meets His Maker -- Ladies and Children First -- Anybody Asks You for the Time, You Don't Have It -- Sick as a Downsized Dog -- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? -- III. Going Coastal: Five Hundred Years of the Poverty Draft, New York to St. Augustine -- Port Question Authority -- The Amazing Debt-Defying Disappearing Bus -- Todos Que Hermanos -- Little Box of Terrors -- Dr. King on the Waterfront -- Ready to Die but Never Will -- What Did You Do with My Aunt? -- The Castillo Economy -- IV. The Fine Arts of Moving in Circles: El Monte to Bishop and Back -- Riding Along with Princess Di -- All Snakes, No Ladders -- Swagger -- The Philosopher-King Does Sacramento -- To See What There Is to See -- Books Mobile and the Secret Stash -- This Place Is a Dump -- Ride in Beauty -- V. Living on Debts and Promises: Montgomery after the Boycott, New Orleans before the Storm -- Mickey's Hot Little Cousin -- The Back Is Where It's At -- Take a Deep Breath -- Vietnam Thirty Plus -- Snap! Judgments. ; Lovebug -- Another Get-Poor-Quick Scheme -- The Borrowed Time Club -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Read On . ..
• Titolo autorizzato: Traveling light
• ISBN: 0-8070-9652-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813558003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II