The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio,New

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio,New

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Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communitiesone made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.born Chicano citizensthis book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern Californias hightech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on lowwage babysitting and dishcleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for lowwage jobs, and family, pride, and crosscultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?

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