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Introduction -- 1. San Francisco: The Best City on Earth -- 2. Home is Where the [Broken] Heart is -- 3. The Unraveling Social Safety Net -- 4. The Tattered Web of Kinship -- 5. Life's a Bitch: The Everyday Struggle for Survival -- 6. Paradise Lost: The Lived Experiences of Homeless Kids -- Conclusion

Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican families in the United States, and provides an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race and class oppression affects minority family organization

While proponents of anti-immigration measures claim to be motivated solely by economic considerations, the 1994 campaign rhetoric regarding the CA anti-immigration initiative, Proposition 187, tells a different story. Proposition 187 denies health services, welfare benefits, & public education to undocumented immigrants & their children; many of its provisions violate existing state & federal laws. This proposition was endorsed by the Republican Party in CA, was made the single most important issue of Governor Peter Wilson's reelection campaign, & was passed by an overwhelming majority of CA voters. An analysis of proponents' discourse about Prop 187 reveals an "us vs them" mentality, in which "we" try to reclaim the state that once belonged to "us.". M. Maguire

This article examines service learning in the Peace and Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. The authors show that students who complete their two courses—Poverty, Homelessness, and the Urban Underclass as well as Field Experience—make significant contributions to the community service organizations they serve. Not only do their students learn, but the organizations benefit from the knowledge the students bring. Furthermore, through service learning, many of the students develop a long-term commitment to social justice and continue to work for social change years after leaving the university.

It is within the context of the Special Period, the economic crisis that began in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the tightening of the economic blockade by the United States, that we analyze work and family relations in Cuba. Although women made significant gains in the labor market after the Revolution, the Special Period has eroded many of these gains. Using interviews collected in Cuba, we document the struggles that women workers encountered in order to continue to support their families and stay in the labor market. The growth of jobs in the tourist sector has led to worker redistribution and occupational downward mobility, as workers moved from professional to less skilled jobs in the tourism industry with little opportunities for mobility. We also capture how the Special Period has impacted Cuban families. Despite state attempts to legislate gender equity within the family, patriarchy was never fully eradicated in the home. This failure of the revolutionary project has been exacerbated by the country's current economic crisis. The burden of this crisis has fallen more heavily on women who continue to shoulder the responsibility for household work and childcare.