Barbara and Mike Bass Library
"Evicted by Matthew Desmond - Book Trailer." Youtube, uploaded by Signature Views, 1 March 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ovyccOXyoQ.
"No Place Like Home" The New York Times Book Review (accessible via LCCC's database U.S. Newsstream)
"Losing a Home, and Losing Hope" The Washington Post (accessible via LCCC's database U.S. Newsstream)
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Matthew Desmond is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. He is the principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, a nationwide database of evictions. Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. |
PBS Newshour. "The Stories Behind the Unseen Eviction Crisis." Youtube. 6 April 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBT8GGhh2Tg.
"Matthew Desmond, Evicted." YouTube, uploaded by Politics and Prose, 17 March 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24M9wUaCEKo&t=3s.
Listen to or Read the Transcript of an interview with Matthew Desmond on the Diane Rehm show.
"Matthew Desmond: Evicted'." Diane Rehm, 7 March 2016, https://dianerehm.org/shows/2016-03-07/matthew-desmond-evicted.
