Book of Donmon Teith

"People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy. As

The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States Va

Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of va

Drawing on extensive archival research and in-depth study of both statute law and local administrative records, this book examines the complexities of vagrancy

How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distributionIn this innovative book