Homeless in Paradise: A Map of the Terrain

by Rob Rosenthal

Paradise is Santa Barbara, California, where in the early 1980s the beautiful, affluent city faced the problem of what to do with all the street people. Rob Rosenthal worked with the Homeless People's Project in Santa Barbara and has documented his experiences with forty-four oral histories and numerous interviews. His portraits challenge the traditional view of the homeless as slackers, hopeless victims, and loners. Instead, he portrays active agents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566391296
• ISBN13: 9781566391290
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

excellent fieldwork....

....including interviews with the homeless as well as excerpts from field notes and personal reactions, all tied into national trends and relevant figures--yet written without academic jargon. I'd like to see more studies like this one. (I lived in Santa Barbara for about a year and have gone to school there for four years, and as a community counselor I did therapy with homeless clients and presented at the Rescue Mission.)