Indians on skid row / by Hugh Brody.: R42-4/1970-2E-PDF
"The life style of Indian migrants in a skid row community of a large urban centre is the basis of this study. The sources of income as well as the nature of drinking in the community are detailed. The Socio-economic position of the Indian migrants, it is argued, is that of lumpenproletarean: he is dislocated from both mainstream economic opportunities and traditional or pseudo-traditional Indian life. In the light of this socio-economic position it becomes possible to understand the attractions and advantages of a skid row milieu. Displaced as the Indian migrant is from any economic structure, white middle-class values can have no force: acceptance of such values, it is argued, would be irrational. Persistent drinking is intelligible in that light. By means of analysis of Indian-white skid row interaction, the recurrent violence of skid row can also be better understood. The principal finding of the study can be summarised: skid row resolves the most acute difficulties facing the Indian migrant — the very difficulties which mainstream or middle-class urban life tend most acutely to aggravate."--Abstract.
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| Department/Agency | Northern Science Research Group (Canada) Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. |
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| Title | Indians on skid row / by Hugh Brody. |
| Variant title | Role of alcohol and community in the adaptive process of Indian urban migrants |
| Series title | N.S.R.G. ; 70-2 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | "October, 1970." Issued also in French under title: Les Indiens dans le quartier interlope. "The role of alcohol and community in the adaptive process of Indian urban migrants."--T.p. Digitized edition from print [produced by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada]. Includes bibliographical references. |
| Publishing information | Ottawa : Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Northern Science Research Group, 1970, c1971. |
| Author / Contributor | Brody, Hugh,1943- |
| Description | 86 p. |
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| Subject terms | Indians Economic issues Alcoholism |
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