Vagrant Nation

Vagrant Nation
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9780199768448
ISBN-13 : 0199768447
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Book Synopsis Vagrant Nation by : Risa Lauren Goluboff

Download or read book Vagrant Nation written by Risa Lauren Goluboff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy. As Beats, hippies, war protesters, Communists, racial minorities, civil rights activists, prostitutes, single women, poor people, and sexual minorities challenged vagrancy laws, the laws became a shared constitutional target for clashes over radically different visions of the nation's future"--


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