Life at the Center
Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston
$105.36
- Paperback
318 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2024
Summary
In Life at the Center, Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of “corporate Catholicism,” James documents several paradoxes of assistance arising among the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the Haitian Multi-Service Center: how social assistance produces and reproduces structural inequalities be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520400542 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520400542 |
| Author: | Erica Caple James |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 318 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century |
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“An elegant, complicated, authoritative, critical, and informative ethnography, revealing important dimensions of Haitian religious and civic life in a major American city.”
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Erica Caple James
Erica Caple James is Professor of Medical Anthropology and Urban Studies at MIT and author of the award-winning book Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti.
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