Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place. By Esther Sullivan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+264. $85.00 (cloth); 29.95 (paper).

Authors

Ranita Ray, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

3-1-2020

Publication Title

American Journal of Sociology

Volume

125

Issue

5

First page number:

1456

Last page number:

1458

Abstract

Traditionally, ethnographers of urban poverty in the United States have tended to write about the everyday lives, tentative morality, and curious practices of the "poor" as if poverty were a suprise outcome of illusive structures and intensely complex behaviors of the poor. ... See full text for complete abstract.

Disciplines

American Literature | Inequality and Stratification

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File Size

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Language

English

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Repository Citation

Ray, R. (2020). Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place. By Esther Sullivan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiv+264. $85.00 (cloth); 29.95 (paper).. American Journal of Sociology, 125(5), 1456-1458.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708029