Singlewide : Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park /

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In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America's trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing publ...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Salamon, Sonya (Auteur), MacTavish, Katherine, 1963- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Rural poor > Housing.
Rural conditions.
Mobile home parks.
Mobile home living.
Housing, Rural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Logement rural > États-Unis.
Pauvres en milieu rural > Logement > États-Unis.
Parcs de maisons mobiles > États-Unis.
Vie en maison mobile > États-Unis.
Housing, Rural > United States.
Rural poor > Housing > United States.
Mobile home parks > United States.
Mobile home living > United States.
United States.
United States > Rural conditions.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : galvanized ghettoes
  • The mobile home industrial complex
  • Making ends meet, family finances
  • The Illinois park : closer to the middle class
  • The North Carolina parks : near ties that bind of kin and church
  • The New Mexico parks : a dream rooted in place
  • Youth and trailer park life
  • Reforming the mobile home industrial complex
  • Conclusion : family dreams and trailer park realities.

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