Tables of Contents for Reckoning With Homelessness

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Acknowledgments

Part I: Classification and History

This Business of Taking Stock

Unearned Keep: From Almshouse to Shelter in New York City

Part II: Fieldwork and Framework

Introduction: Ethnography in the Annals of Homelessness

Streets, Shelters, and Flops: An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Men, 1979--1982

The Airport as Home

117

Out for the Count: The Census Bureau's 1990 S-Night Enumeration

131

Homelessness and African American Men

147

Part III: Advocacy and Engagement

Negotiating Settlement: Advocacy for the Homeless Poor in the United States, 1980--1995

175

Limits to Witnessing: From Ethnography to Engagement

204

Notes

219

References

241

Index

269