![]() ![]() ![]() There are few specialists who know homelessness better than the authors of this volume. By analyzing the thing, one can claim to know it in ways that are sanctioned by the academy and by sources that fund the analysis. ![]() To be specialists, I suppose, require academics to know problems in intimate ways. Like many (perhaps all) social problems, homelessness gets the attention of academics specialists. Somehow, though, in San Francisco this "other" appeared more prominent, and the contrasts with the "other" made the opportunity and wealth seem more cruel. Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State by Professor Wright James D from. Opportunity and avoidance only paralleled the juxtaposition of Tiffany, Sax, and Gucci at Union square with men (and, less often, women) panhandling and sleeping on the sidewalks. The conference's theme, "Opening the Golden Gate of Opportunity," splashed across a thick program that also contained a warning to avoid the city's homeless. The Founding of the United States 1763-1815Janet Souter, Leaves of Grass and Memoranda. TRENT, Southern Illinois University, at Edwardsvilleįlying to a conference in San Francisco, I finished reading Beside the Golden Door. ![]()
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