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Eksmitowani. Nędza i zyski w jednym z amerykańskich miast by Matthew Desmond
39 reviews
esjackson's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Classism
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Gun violence, Self harm, Grief, Animal death, Cursing, Incest, Murder, and Suicide
bessadams's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Racism, Addiction, Child death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Cursing, Drug abuse, Violence, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
hellavaral's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Racism, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal death, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Racial slurs
porshainielsen's review against another edition
5.0
Just some of my favorite, profound quotes, but I have literally over 50 annotations.
"They can be compassionate because it's not their only option", he said of liberals who didn't live in trailer parks."
"In 83% of cases, landlords who received a nuisance citation for domestic violence responded by either evicting the tenants or by threatening to evict them for future police calls. Sometimes, this meant evicting a couple, but most of the time landlords evicted women abused by men who did not live with them."
"The distance between grinding poverty and even stable poverty could be so vast that those at the bottom had little hope of climbing out, even if they pinched every penny. So they chose not to. Instead, they tried to survive in color, to season the suffering with pleasure. They would get a little high or have a drink or do a bit of gambling or acquire a television. They might buy lobster on food stamps."
Graphic: Addiction and Racism
c100's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Mental illness, Addiction, Racism, and Drug use
savvylit's review against another edition
4.0
For an informative nonfiction book, Evicted was immensely readable. I couldn't help but turn each page, hoping for each tenant to find a stable home. I also found myself increasingly disgusted by both landlords and the criminal justice system for their ability to take away a basic human right (shelter) with seeming ease or even righteousness.
Another aspect of Evicted that I enjoyed was Desmond's postscript regarding how he conducted the research for this book. I had wondered how involved he'd become in the lives of the folks that he followed and I appreciated his addressing that question. I think that Desmond's explanation of ethnography was fascinating and I was also pleased to read that he had developed genuine friendships with a lot of the interviewees.
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, and Classism
evalion231's review against another edition
5.0
This book put faces and stories to my eviction data work in a way that is missing in our report tbh.
Graphic: Racism, Death, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Vomit
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Animal death
zombiezami's review against another edition
Graphic: Classism, Ableism, and Racism
Moderate: Police brutality, Cursing, Racial slurs, and Violence
Minor: Gun violence
lovetlr's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Racism, Child death, and Drug use
smoothlikebutter's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Racism