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The Word On The Street: Homeless Men In Las Vegas
Kurt Borchard
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Description for The Word On The Street: Homeless Men In Las Vegas
Paperback. Just beyond Las Vegas' glitz live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to the city each year, these people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it's "good business." This study investigates how Las Vegas addresses this significant social problem. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; JFFB; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Just beyond Las Vegas' glitz live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to the city each year, these people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it's ""good business."" Available now in paperback, ""The Word on the Street"" is the first in-depth study of homelessness in Las Vegas. It is also an important investigation of how a popular tourist destination addresses this significant social problem.Through conversations with homeless men and years of fieldwork and analysis, Kurt Borchard reveals the lives and desperation of men without shelter. He offers a graphic, ... Read more
Just beyond Las Vegas' glitz live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to the city each year, these people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it's ""good business."" Available now in paperback, ""The Word on the Street"" is the first in-depth study of homelessness in Las Vegas. It is also an important investigation of how a popular tourist destination addresses this significant social problem.Through conversations with homeless men and years of fieldwork and analysis, Kurt Borchard reveals the lives and desperation of men without shelter. He offers a graphic, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874177237
SKU
V9780874177237
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Ref
99-3
About Kurt Borchard
Kurt Borchard is associate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. He has worked as the director of a program for homeless men in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Reviews for The Word On The Street: Homeless Men In Las Vegas
"The strength of his work is embodied in the fact that at every turn homeless men are allowed to speak for themselves. Borchard's retelling of the problems of addiction, mental illness, loss of family networks, and substance abuse is heartrending....The complexity with which homelessness is understood is highlighted in this book and is one of the major thesis points of ... Read more