The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco

by Randy Shaw

Book Overview

Named for a part of the city where bribes bought police the highest-grade beef, San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood remains an island of primarily low-income, ethnically diverse residents in a city of ever increasing wealth. How has it survived? Randy Shaw searches for answers in this powerful account of the Tenderloin from its post-quake rebuilding in 1907 through today. The Tenderloin fought back against the establishment time and time again...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692327231
• ISBN13: 9780692327234
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Urban Reality Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"