An Ethnographic Portrait of a Precarious Life: Getting By on Even Less

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 642, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-138

  Duck, Waverly O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

African American families; gender; housing; sexuality; teen pregnancy; urban poverty; welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861889666     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716212438202     Document Type: Article

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