Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community

by David Wagner

Book Overview

Culture and resistance in a homeless community.'Checkerboard Square is very impressive. It is, I think, the fullest view of homelessness from the inside ever presented. The book contributes not only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813315867
• ISBN13: 9780813315867
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Homelessness as social rebellion

David Wagner accurately portrays a well-organized homelessness community and the less known aspects of homeless. The book counters the media's image that the homeless lack a social network, that they are all simply drug addicts or mentally ill. Its greatest strenghth lies in its detailed descriptions of homeless people, which Wagner gathered from his own experiences with a homeless commnity (presumably Portland,Maine).