Brian Goldstone Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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journalist / anthropologist / writing a book about housing precarity & homelessness

The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States
Craig Willse
This got more traction than expected, so two other sources on the medicalization of homelessness: "From Pathology to Population" (in "The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States") https://t.co/cSEN1uchoL + https://t.co/hSLgCPnsoP (h/t @joseph_wallers)
Paperback, 2015
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Andrea Elliott
Thrilled to be in conversation tomorrow with @andreafelliott about her stunning, essential new book INVISIBLE CHILD: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City. https://www.newamerica.org/fellows/events/andrea-elliott-invisible-child
Paperback, 2022
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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Loïc Wacquant
As Loïc Wacquant powerfully argues, the medicalization of homelessness in the US became "a conduit to criminalization at the bottom of the class structure as it introduced a logic of individual treatment." (Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, xxii)
Paperback, 2009
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Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Vincent Brown
“For Brown, the reluctance among military historians to ‘acknowledge slave revolt as an act of war’ is part of a long tradition of erasing resistance from below.” A great review by @jcljules of Vince Brown’s latest book, “Tacky’s Revolt,” in @Harpers https://t.co/Dq2vuczA4q https://t.co/3ZiSEbLark
Paperback, 2022
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Brown: Poems
Kevin Young
“For Brown, the reluctance among military historians to ‘acknowledge slave revolt as an act of war’ is part of a long tradition of erasing resistance from below.” A great review by @jcljules of Vince Brown’s latest book, “Tacky’s Revolt,” in @Harpers https://t.co/Dq2vuczA4q https://t.co/3ZiSEbLark
Hardcover, 2018
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