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 American road as the…
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." Jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes swaggere…
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." Jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes swaggere…
"Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to find a place where they can sym…
Although research has shown LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in counts of homeless youth, scholars have yet to investigate whether this trend exists among adults experiencing homelessness. This dissertation uses an organizational analysis of four Chicago homeless centers that ca…
This qualitative research ceremony inquired into the meaning of the phenomenon of Black people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. It was performed within an Afro-feminine indigenous approach integrating principles from the Yoruba-Ifá spiritual cosmology. Within this frame…
The bidirectional link between work and health is well established and working towards mitigating disparities in these areas could have substantial impacts on the lives of those that are deeply impacted by poor health and a lack of work. The specific aims of this project were to…
This research project is a historical account of the effects of neoliberal economic, social, and urban development on the making of the third ghetto in African American communities, with a particular focus on homeless families in Washington, D.C. at the end of the twentieth cent…
While U.S modernist studies has attended well to the radical literary movements of the1920s and 1930s, it often limits its focus to representations of working-class life. Expanding thisscholarship’s historical purview, this project unearths a modernist archive that attests to an…
Given the current global war on terror, there was concern that the influx of servicemen and women returning from the war with less than honorable discharge would increase veteran homelessness in the United States. Using Castro and Kintzle’s military transition theory, the purpos…
As the Housing First approach to homeless service provision has proliferated in the United States in recent years, varied understandings of the model have emerged and a wide range of outcomes have been reported. This study seeks to better understand the variation in the implemen…
Homelessness remains a pervasive, enduring national problem that brings intense suffering to individuals, families, and communities. Homeless people experience disproportionately high rates of mental health disorders and incarceration than the general population. Homeless adults…