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Understanding Homelessness: From Memoir to Pathways Home (May 2014): Works Cited

By Irene Glasser and Eric Hirsch

Works Cited

Amster, Randall.  Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of HomelessnessLFB Scholarly Publishing, 2008 (CH, Jul’09, 46-6500).

Baxter, Ellen, and Kim Hopper.  Private Lives/Public Spaces: Homeless Adults on the Streets of New York City.  Community Service Society, [1981].

Bourgois, Pierre, and Jeff Schonberg.  Righteous Dopefiend.  California, 2009 (CH, Feb’10, 47-3495).

Bridgman, Rae.  StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless.  Toronto, 2006.

Burt, Martha.  Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s.  Russell Sage Foundation, 1992 (CH, Sep’92, 30-0608).

Connolly, Deborah.  Homeless Mothers: Face to Face with Women and Poverty.  Minnesota, 2000 (CH, Dec’00, 38-2443).

Depastino, Todd.  Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America.  Chicago, 2003.

Desjarlais Robert.  Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless.  Pennsylvania, 1994.

Encyclopedia of Homelessness, ed. by David Levinson.  2v.  SAGE Publications, 2004 (CH, Jan’05, 42-2572).

Finkelstein, Marni.  With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets.  Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.

Friedman, Donna Haig, with Rosa Clark et al.  Parenting in Public: Family Shelter and Public Assistance.  Columbia, 2000.

Gibson, Kristina E.  Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York’s Streets.  New York University, 2011 (CH, Oct’11, 49-1179).

Glasser, Irene.  Homelessness in Global Perspective.  G. K. Hall, 1994 (CH, Oct’94, 32-1238).

——.   More than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen.  Alabama, 1988 (CH, Jul’89, 26-6579).

Glasser, Irene, and Rae Bridgman.  Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness.  Berghahn Books, 1999.

Gowan, Teresa.  Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco.  Minnesota, 2010 (CH, Dec’10, 48-2388).

Gray-Garcia, Lisa.  Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America.  City Lights Books, 2006.

Hirsch, Kathleen.  Songs from the Alley.  Ticknor & Fields, 1989.

Höjdestrand, Tova.  Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Soviet Russia.  Cornell, 2009 (CH, Oct’10, 48-1176).

Hopper, Kim.  Reckoning with Homelessness.  Columbia, 2003 (CH, Nov’03, 41-1874).

How to House the Homeless, ed. by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O’Flaherty.  Russell Sage Foundation, 2010 (CH, Feb’11, 48-3579).

Howard, Ella.  Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America.  Pennsylvania, 2013 (CH, Sep’13, 51-0578).

Irwin, Leslie.  My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and Their Animals.  L. Rienner, 2013 (CH, Jul’13, 50-6476).

Jencks, Christopher.  The Homeless.  Harvard, 1994 (CH, Oct’94, 32-1241).

Kennedy, Michelle.  Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless in America.  Penguin Books, 2006.

Kozol, Jonathan.  Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America.  Ballentine Books, 2006.

Kusmer, Kenneth.  Down & Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American HistoryOxford, 2002 (CH, Oct’02, 40-1122).

LeMieux, Richard.  Breakfast at Sally’s: One Homeless Man’s Inspirational Journey.  Skyhorse Publishing, 2008.

Liebow, Elliot.  Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women.  Free Press, 1993 (CH, Feb’94, 31-3507).

Lyon-Callo, Vincent.  Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry.  Broadview Press, 2004.

Molina Jackson, Edna.  Homeless Not Hopeless: The Survival Networks of Latino and African American Men.  University Press of America, 2008 (CH, Jul’09, 46-6515).

No Room of Her Own: Women’s Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance, [collected by] Desiree Hellegers.  Palgrave McMillan, 2011 (CH, Apr’12, 49-4772).

O’Flaherty, Brendan.  Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness.  Harvard, 1996.

A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda, ed. by Rachel Bratt, Michael Stone, and Chester Hartman.  Temple University, 2006 (CH, Oct’06, 44-1051).

Rossi, Peter H.  Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness.  Chicago, 1989 (CH, May’90, 27-5443).

Rowe, Michael.  Crossing the Border: Encounters between Homeless People and Outreach Workers.  California, 1999.

Snow, David A., and Leon Anderson.  Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People.  California, 1993 (CH, Jul’93, 30-6459).

Spradley, James P.  You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads.  Little, Brown, 1970 (CH, Nov’70).

Stringer, Lee.  Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street.  Seven Stories Press, 1998.

Tsemberis, Sam.  Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People with Mental Illness and Addiction.  Hazelden, 2010.

Voeten, Teun.  Tunnel People.  PM Press, 2010 (CH, Jun’11, 48-6002).

Von Mahs, JürgenDown and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People.  Temple University, 2013 (CH, Sep’13, 51-0591).

Wagner, David.  Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community.  Westview, 1993 (CH, May’94, 31-5173).

Wagner, David, with Jennifer Barton Gilman.  Confronting Homelessness: Poverty, Politics, and the Failure of Social Policy.  L. Reinner, 2012 (CH, Mar’13, 50-4156).

Walls, Jennifer.  The Glass Castle.  Scribner, 2009.

Wasserman, Jason Adam, and Jeffrey Michael Clair. At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness.  L. Rienner, 2010 (CH, Sep’10, 48-0591).

Waterston, Alisse.  Love, Sorrow, and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence.  Temple University, 1999.