00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.837078 CaOODSP 20221107151043 cr ||||||||||| 170519t19701971onc #ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- R42-4/1970-2E-PDF R72-6470 Brody, Hugh, 1943- Indians on skid row [electronic resource] / by Hugh Brody. Role of alcohol and community in the adaptive process of Indian urban migrants Ottawa : Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Northern Science Research Group, 1970, c1971. 86 p. N.S.R.G. ; 70-2 "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. "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. gccst Indians gccst Economic issues gccst Alcoholism Northern Science Research Group (Canada) Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Les Indiens dans le quartier interlope (CaOODSP)9.837079 NSRG (Series) 70-2. (CaOODSP)9.837057 PDF 5.50 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/aanc-inac/R42-4-1970-2-eng.pdf