Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781478018957 |
| ISBN10: | 147801895X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 368 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 590 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 53 illustrations |
| 582 |
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Kids on the Street
Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 24 February 2023
Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
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Short description:
Joseph Plaster focuses on San Francisco’s Tenderloin to explore the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled young people marginalized by gender and sexuality to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.
Long description:
In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. Tracing the history of the downtown lodging house districts where marginally housed youth regularly lived beginning in the late 1800s, Plaster focuses on San Francisco’s Tenderloin from the 1950s to the present. He draws on archival, ethnographic, oral history, and public humanities research to outline the queer kinship networks, religious practices, performative storytelling, and migratory patterns that allowed these kids to foster social support and mutual aid. He shows how they collectively and creatively managed the social trauma they experienced, in part by building relationships with johns, bartenders, hotel managers, bouncers, and other vice district denizens. By highlighting a politics where the marginal position of street kids is the basis for a moral economy of reciprocity, Plaster excavates a history of queer life that has been overshadowed by major narratives of gay progress and pride.
"Kids on the Street is an admirable, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented history of the once vibrant queer culture of the Tenderloin and Polk Street. Featuring scores of interviews with one-time Polk Street denizens, it is also a lament for the displacement of the multiracial, multigender culture of San Francisco’s first post-Stonewall queer district. Drawing attention to that once-thriving, often overlooked culture, the book is a valuable contribution to queer history."
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33
2. Street Churches 69
3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108
Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155
4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174
5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220
Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258
Conclusion 276
List of Abbreviations 291
Notes 293
Bibliography 329
Index 345
Introduction 1
1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33
2. Street Churches 69
3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108
Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155
4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174
5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220
Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258
Conclusion 276
List of Abbreviations 291
Notes 293
Bibliography 329
Index 345
