Summary Of With No Direction Homeless Youth On The Road And In The Streets
The ethnography that caught my eye was “With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth On the Road and in the Streets” by: Marni Finkelstein, is an interesting and in depth look into the world of homeless youth, showing the reader the progression of the homeless youth and the tactics they use everyday to make this a lifestyle they chose. The Ethnography primarily takes place during the summer months and the homeless youth that Finkelstein interviewed and took information from were mostly based in the East village neighbourhood in New York, concentrating in and around Tompkins square park (Finkelsteing,8). The author wanting to give the reader a more understanding look into the lives of these homeless youth learning about their experiences, priorities
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I found this very interesting as during the lectures in class we would often talk about family organization and when I was reading the book I couldn’t help but notice this strong connection to that a family can be created form nothing and function on a code of respect that is respected by most street kids. Also the connection when it comes to gender relations and the situations that vary between homeless girls and boys. It is shown that even thought both sexes have been both offered sexual advances for drugs and money, the girls have a harder time because of these situations of prostitution. It is often why girls travel in a group less than going by themselves when hitchhiking etc.…The ethnography really enlightens my view on these subjects because I would have never thought such a feeling of family and “brotherhood” could be established between multiple people and genders, and how different gender relations can be how experiences can differ between people of the opposite sex. Nothing the anthropologist did really contradicted what I read as it actually made me understand even more what I was learning in class reinforcing the facts about family and gender relations. Reading the ethnography was as if experiencing what these homeless youth went through and how they dealt with their
I found this very interesting as during the lectures in class we would often talk about family organization and when I was reading the book I couldn’t help but notice this strong connection to that a family can be created form nothing and function on a code of respect that is respected by most street kids. Also the connection when it comes to gender relations and the situations that vary between homeless girls and boys. It is shown that even thought both sexes have been both offered sexual advances for drugs and money, the girls have a harder time because of these situations of prostitution. It is often why girls travel in a group less than going by themselves when hitchhiking etc.…The ethnography really enlightens my view on these subjects because I would have never thought such a feeling of family and “brotherhood” could be established between multiple people and genders, and how different gender relations can be how experiences can differ between people of the opposite sex. Nothing the anthropologist did really contradicted what I read as it actually made me understand even more what I was learning in class reinforcing the facts about family and gender relations. Reading the ethnography was as if experiencing what these homeless youth went through and how they dealt with their