Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park
Published:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781501709685
Print ISBN:
9781501713217
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Prairieview Manor Trailer Park Prairieview Manor Trailer Park
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Park Owner’s Management Practices Park Owner’s Management Practices
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Residents’ Complaints and Concerns Residents’ Complaints and Concerns
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Park Life Park Life
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A Sense of Community? A Sense of Community?
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Neighbors and Neighborhood Concerns Neighbors and Neighborhood Concerns
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Family Lives in the Illinois Trailer Park Detailed Family Lives in the Illinois Trailer Park Detailed
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Complex Family Histories Complex Family Histories
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Living with Stigma Living with Stigma
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Chapter
3 The Illinois Park: Closer to Middle Class
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Pages
63–92
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Published:October 2017
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Salamon, Sonya, and Katherine MacTavish, 'The Illinois Park: Closer to Middle Class', Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park (Ithaca, NY , 2017; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 24 May 2018), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713217.003.0004, accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
The Illinois trailer park has generous lots, amenities, and liberal pet rules. Choosing this trailer park over alternative local options highlights parental priorities for: affordable housing and children’s access to a quality education. But the adjacent town resists formally incorporating this bordering large park. Prioritizing homeownership, country living, and education are values Illinois park folk share with those in nearby upscale subdivisions. They uniformly believe, however, they are scorned, by the townspeople, who stigmatize them as trailer-trash, because of where they live. That stigma particularly creates a soiled identity for park youth.
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