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The Gambler's Dream
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Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 2020-04-29 |
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ISBN | : 9780461866490 |
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Dream Books and Gamblers
Author | : Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2022-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252053834 |
Ubiquitous illegal lotteries known as policy flourished in Chicago’s Black community during the overlapping waves of the Great Migration. Policy “queens” owned stakes in lucrative operations while women writers and clerks canvased the neighborhood, passed out winnings, and kept the books. Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach examines the complexities of Black women’s work in policy gambling. Policy provided Black women with a livelihood for themselves and their families. At the same time, navigating gender expectations, aggressive policing, and other hazards of the infromal economy led them to refashion ideas about Black womanhood and respectability. Policy earnings also funded above-board enterprises ranging from neighborhood businesses to philanthropic institutions, and Schlabach delves into the various ways Black women straddled the illegal policy business and reputable community involvement. Vivid and revealing, Dream Books and Gamblers tells the stories of Black women in the underground economy and how they used their work to balance the demands of living and laboring in Black Chicago.
Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream
Author | : Aaron M. Duncan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1317512472 |
This book explores the rise and increased acceptance of gambling in America, particularly the growth of the game of poker, as a means for examining changes to the American Dream and the risk society. Poker both critiques and reinterprets the myth of the American Dream, putting greater emphasis on the importance of luck and risk management while deemphasizing the importance of honesty and hard work. Duncan discusses the history of gambling in America, changes to the rhetoric surrounding gambling, the depiction of poker in the Wild West as portrayed in film, its recent rise in popularity on television, its current place in post-modern America on the internet, and future implications.
The Gamblers
Author | : Norman Wolfson |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2005-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595356419 |
Gambling is risky business, especially for recreational gamers. All casino poker rooms are populated 24/7 by serious players capable of emptying the pockets of any less experienced guests. While predators and crooks are a minority, they are there; these types seek out the uninitiated and rarely fail to deplete their bankrolls. Even a few dealers are out to make an easy buck, but the house and fellow players tend to keep that minority in line. Still, the poker room is a better bet than the house games, at which even professionals become losers over the long haul. All the author learned over thirty years of visiting casinos a couple of times a week is told in The Gamblers.
The Dreams of Life
Author | : Walter Hasselaar |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2003-11-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1412218861 |
This book is about the dreams of everyday and about jobs as well as the unemployment insurance crisis.
Alqua Dreams
Author | : Rachel Pollack |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575119438 |
The corpse people of Planet Keela believe that life is an illusion. Earthman Jaimi Cooper finds their practices bizarre but is attracted by a beautiful tribeswoman. Cooper's task on the planet Keela: offer the native Lukai fair price for their rare ore rhovium, but first convince the powerful Death Woman that he and the Lukai themselves are more than illusions in a world where everyone has already died. The fascinating story of one man confronting a totally alien culture.