Traveling Light : On the Road with America's Poor.
Weston, Kath.
Traveling Light : On the Road with America's Poor. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (286 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Freedom in My Pocket -- It's a Poor Rat That's Got But One Hole: An Introduction to Living Poor in a Rich Country -- I. When the Desert Fails to Bloom: Albuquerque to Missoula via Vegas -- Pennies from Heaven -- Final Call for Socorro, Truth or Consequences, Hatch, Las Cruces . . . -- Everybody Out! Hands Up against the Bus! -- The Trucker's Lament -- Keep Your Eyes on the Burrito -- Those Fools up at the VA -- Who You Calling "Food Stamps"? -- Next Stop, Sin City -- Wait Training -- The Trash Bag Racer Rally and Other Extreme Sports -- Fight! -- You Don't Say -- Already Got a Job and a Lot of Good It Done Me -- The Singing Bus -- II. Leaving the City of Cranes: Boston to Milwaukee in Two Alimentary Acts -- Awash in a Great Green Sea -- Master and Commander -- I Just Hate to Travel Like This -- Y'all Shouldn't Have Ate That Chicken -- Too-Tired Meets His Maker -- Ladies and Children First -- Anybody Asks You for the Time, You Don't Have It -- Sick as a Downsized Dog -- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? -- III. Going Coastal: Five Hundred Years of the Poverty Draft, New York to St. Augustine -- Port Question Authority -- The Amazing Debt-Defying Disappearing Bus -- Todos Que Hermanos -- Little Box of Terrors -- Dr. King on the Waterfront -- Ready to Die but Never Will -- What Did You Do with My Aunt? -- The Castillo Economy -- IV. The Fine Arts of Moving in Circles: El Monte to Bishop and Back -- Riding Along with Princess Di -- All Snakes, No Ladders -- Swagger -- The Philosopher-King Does Sacramento -- To See What There Is to See -- Books Mobile and the Secret Stash -- This Place Is a Dump -- Ride in Beauty -- V. Living on Debts and Promises: Montgomery after the Boycott, New Orleans before the Storm -- Mickey's Hot Little Cousin -- The Back Is Where It's At -- Take a Deep Breath -- Vietnam Thirty Plus -- Snap! Judgments. Lovebug -- Another Get-Poor-Quick Scheme -- The Borrowed Time Club -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Read On . ..
9780807096529
Poor -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
United States -- Description and travel.
Electronic books.
HV4045 -- .W47 2008eb
305.5/690973
Traveling Light : On the Road with America's Poor. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (286 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Freedom in My Pocket -- It's a Poor Rat That's Got But One Hole: An Introduction to Living Poor in a Rich Country -- I. When the Desert Fails to Bloom: Albuquerque to Missoula via Vegas -- Pennies from Heaven -- Final Call for Socorro, Truth or Consequences, Hatch, Las Cruces . . . -- Everybody Out! Hands Up against the Bus! -- The Trucker's Lament -- Keep Your Eyes on the Burrito -- Those Fools up at the VA -- Who You Calling "Food Stamps"? -- Next Stop, Sin City -- Wait Training -- The Trash Bag Racer Rally and Other Extreme Sports -- Fight! -- You Don't Say -- Already Got a Job and a Lot of Good It Done Me -- The Singing Bus -- II. Leaving the City of Cranes: Boston to Milwaukee in Two Alimentary Acts -- Awash in a Great Green Sea -- Master and Commander -- I Just Hate to Travel Like This -- Y'all Shouldn't Have Ate That Chicken -- Too-Tired Meets His Maker -- Ladies and Children First -- Anybody Asks You for the Time, You Don't Have It -- Sick as a Downsized Dog -- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? -- III. Going Coastal: Five Hundred Years of the Poverty Draft, New York to St. Augustine -- Port Question Authority -- The Amazing Debt-Defying Disappearing Bus -- Todos Que Hermanos -- Little Box of Terrors -- Dr. King on the Waterfront -- Ready to Die but Never Will -- What Did You Do with My Aunt? -- The Castillo Economy -- IV. The Fine Arts of Moving in Circles: El Monte to Bishop and Back -- Riding Along with Princess Di -- All Snakes, No Ladders -- Swagger -- The Philosopher-King Does Sacramento -- To See What There Is to See -- Books Mobile and the Secret Stash -- This Place Is a Dump -- Ride in Beauty -- V. Living on Debts and Promises: Montgomery after the Boycott, New Orleans before the Storm -- Mickey's Hot Little Cousin -- The Back Is Where It's At -- Take a Deep Breath -- Vietnam Thirty Plus -- Snap! Judgments. Lovebug -- Another Get-Poor-Quick Scheme -- The Borrowed Time Club -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Read On . ..
9780807096529
Poor -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
United States -- Description and travel.
Electronic books.
HV4045 -- .W47 2008eb
305.5/690973