| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America. By Todd DePastino. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxvi, 325 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-226-14378-3.)

Todd DePastino's ambitious monograph demonstrates how homelessness has played a central role in American history. Neither a "comprehensive history of American homelessness" nor an "exhaustive ethnography of hobo subculture," this revised dissertation instead examines how different eras of homelessness "have both reflected and shaped larger changes in the political economy and culture of America since the late nineteenth century" (p. xix). The author expertly draws on a multitude of scholarly conversations, including those on race, class, gender, sexuality, social welfare, migratory labor, whiteness, urban history, and popular culture.

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