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Brian Goldstone Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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journalist / anthropologist / writing a book about housing precarity & homelessness

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Book Cover for: The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States, Craig Willse

The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States

Craig Willse
Brian GoldstoneBrian Goldstone

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

$27.00Member price:$27.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Andrea Elliott

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Andrea Elliott
Brian GoldstoneBrian Goldstone

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

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, Loïc Wacquant

Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Loïc Wacquant
Brian GoldstoneBrian Goldstone

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

$30.95Member price:$29.40 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, Vincent Brown

Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Vincent Brown
Brian GoldstoneBrian Goldstone

“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

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Brown: Poems, Kevin Young

Brown: Poems

Kevin Young
Brian GoldstoneBrian Goldstone

“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

$27.00Member price:$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book