Ebook {Epub PDF} Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss rem In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads/5(K).  · Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City was published in and won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. It was written by Matthew Desmond, a tenured sociology professor at Princeton University. After the prologue “Cold City,” the book has three sections with eight chapters each: “Rent,” “Out,” and “After.”.

But I was still caught off guard by the harrowing experiences described in Matthew Desmond's "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which follows eight evicted families as they. Complete summary of Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Justice and Poverty Project. The author of several books, including the award-winning book, "On the Fireline," and "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the.

The official website of Matthew Desmond, author of EVICTED: POVERTY AND PROFIT IN THE AMERICAN CITY. Matthew is also the John L. Loeb Associate Professor. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. The Department of Education has announced Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond as the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection for Week Seven: “More Than Shelter: Redefining the American Home.” We are so pleased Desmond will be joining us Tuesday, August 9, for a dual Chautauqua Lecture Series and Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.