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Article: Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2005
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Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd DePastino (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxv + 325 pp. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $32.50/Paper $20.00).
Citizen Hobo makes a significant contribution to our understanding of homelessness and domesticity in the century after the Civil War. In this rich cultural history, Todd DePastino explains how out of the Civil War and industrial capitalism an army of footloose hoboes constructed a countercultural movement grounded in migratory work, mutual aid, masculinity, and whiteness. Reformers, intellectuals, and elites feared the subversive effects of such workers. How ...