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In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks’ neighbors who live in conventional homes.
Sonya Salamon is Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Prairie Patrimony and Newcomers to Old Towns.MacTavishKatherine:
Katherine MacTavish is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Oregon State University.
"In Singlewide Sonya Salamon and Kate MacTavish provide a fascinating study of the meanings and implications of trailer park life. Readers will find a thoughtful analysis of the industry as well as a comprehensive and policy-rich account of the difficulties encountered by low-income families ‘chasing the American dream’ through mobile home ownership."
Lyn C. Macgregor, University of Wisconsin–Madison:
"Singlewide is an important and much-needed contribution to our understandings of rural poverty. Given the numbers of Americans who live in mobile home parks across the country, this is an important book. Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish do an excellent job of situating the demand for trailer park housing in the larger context of rural economic changes and housing policies."
Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University:
"In Singlewide, distinguished ethnographers Sonya Salamon and Kate MacTavish tell an extraordinary story of trailer people—segregated, stigmatized, and cut off from mainstream society and the rural communities in which they live."
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