Thanks for remembering Elliott Liebow, I had the opportunity to work a bit with him on "Tell them who I am" and it was a great experience.
 
cordially
 
carles

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	From: Clare Feinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
	Sent: Tue 9/21/2004 10:45 PM 
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	Subject: Re: Lack of material on experiences of low income people...
	
	

	Your request sent me on a rampage through my bookshelves where I found
	"Tally's Corner," a mainstay of college sociology classes.  The author,
	Elliot Liebow, recently died, but not before writing another good book,
	"Tell Them Who I Am," about homeless women in the shelter where he
	volunteered, to take his mind off the cancer that would eventually take his
	life.
	
	I also found:
	--"There are no Children Here," by Alex Kotlowitz
	--"Down These Mean Streets," by Piri Thomas (unusual book about Puerto
	Ricans grappling with poverty and race)
	--"Rachel and Her Children," by Jonathan Kozol (homelessness)
	--"Mama Might be Better Off Dead:  the Failure of Health Care in Urban
	America," by Laurie Kay Abraham (the title says it all)
	--"The Other America," by Michael Harrington (a great old classic, good for
	thinking about how much things have changed and how much they are the same)
	
	If I find any others, I'll let you know.
	
	Clare Feinson
	
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	From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
	Dennis Raphael
	Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:29 AM
	To: [log in to unmask]
	Subject: Lack of material on experiences of low income people...
	
	
	A couple of summers ago I taught a course on "Poverty and Health" and was
	looking for "non-academic" type stories on the lived experience of low
	income people.  The only thing I was able to come up with was "Telling it
	like it is...
	
	TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: Realities of Parenting in Poverty
	
	Kathryn Green, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University
	of Saskatchewan
	and participants of "We Did It Together": Low-income Mothers Working
	Together Toward a Healthier Community
	
	This book came out of a project funded by the Prairie Women's Health Centre
	of Excellence. The project brought together fifteen low-income mothers of
	pre-school aged children, who had taken part in programs like collective
	kitchens and parenting groups. These groups had helped them overcome their
	feelings of isolation, learn how to work together, and develop better
	coping
	skills. The purpose of this project was to move beyond coping with the
	conditions that affect low-income families' health to changing those
	conditions. This book comes from the hard work of the women who
	participated
	in this project.
	
	I am not sure it is still available...
	
	SO, any new collection of stories would be VERY useful,
	
	dr
	
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