First published in 1991, Homelessness and Drinking conveys multitude of information about a homeless drinking population in Anchorage, Alaska. The data presented were obtained from day-to-day observations of individuals using a Sleep-Off Center. Bernard Segal discusses themes li…
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City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers--hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers--into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the citys Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of ch…
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis, the Gateway District. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood's last days through photogr…
"An intimate, multifaceted portrait of the police, residents and activists in their own voices. Down, Out, and Under Arrest adds new insights and much-needed complexity to the current debates on policing in the poorest urban areas of the U.S. It is a vivid and insightful five-ye…