The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio

by Daniel Dohan

Book Overview

Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities--one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens--this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238893
• ISBN13: 9780520238893
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"