Shantytown USA

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Shantytown USA
Shantytown USA
Author : Lisa Goff
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 11 April 2016
ISBN : 9780674660458
Pages : 320 pages
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Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street.

Shantytown USA

Shantytown USA by Lisa Goff

Shantytowns once occupied a central place in America’s urban landscape. Lisa Goff shows how these resourceful dwellings were not merely the byproducts of hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. Their legacy is felt in sites of political activism, from campus shanties protesting apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy

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Shantytown USA

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