New book explores chasing the American dream in rural trailer parks

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) In the new book, Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park, anthropologist and ethnographer Sonya Salamon and co-author Katherine MacTavish discuss how the American housing dream in rural trailer parks is often just that -- a dream -- that is rarely realized by those working poor families who call these parks home.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news