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Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America Book

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
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Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's wageworkers' frontier and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as hobohemia. Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the , Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
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  • Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
  • Written by author Todd DePastino
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, 3/15/2010
  • In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Rise of Hobohemia, 1870-1920
1. "The Great Army of Tramps"
The Making of America's Tramp Army
Tasting from the "Fountain of Indolence": Origin Myths of Tramping
2. The Other Side of the Road
"The Broken Home Circle"
From Patriarch to Pariah
"From the Fraternity of Haut Beaus"
3. "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!"
The Opening of the Wageworkers' Frontier
The Main Stem
"(White) Man's Country"
Hobosexuality
Part II: Hobohemia and Homelessness in the Early Twentieth Century
4. The Politics of Hobohemia
Organizing the Main Stem
"The Song of the Jungles"
5. "A Civilization without Homes"
Reforming the Main Stem
The "Hotel Spirit"
The Comic Tramp
Part III: Resettling the Hobo Army, 1920-1980
6. The Decline and Fall of Hobohemia
The Closing of the Wageworker's Frontier
Contesting Hobohemia
7. Forgotten Men
A New Deal for the American Homeless
Folklores of Homelessness
8. Coming Home
The Decline and Fall of Skid Row
Dharma Bums and Easy Riders
Part IV: The Enduring Legacy: Homelessness and American Culture Since 1980
9. Rediscovering Homelessness
The New Homeless
Romancing the Road, Surviving the Streets
Notes
Index


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