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We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America / Jennifer M. Silva.
LIBRA HD8072.5 .S576 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silva, Jennifer M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Working class.
- Working class--United States--Attitudes.
- Presidents.
- Coal mines and mining--Social aspects.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Working class--Political activity--United States.
- Working class--Political activity.
- Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--United States.
- Presidents--United States--Election--2016.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Presidents--Election.
- Working class--Attitudes.
- Working class--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- We are still here
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Jennifer M. Silva tellas a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the erosion of the American Dream is lived and felt.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The puzzle of working-class politics
- Fracturing and revival
- Forgotten men
- The coal miner's granddaughter
- In search of redemption
- Something we never had
- Democracy denied
- Conclusion: Breathing life into a dead community.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Silva, Jennifer M., author. We're still here
- ISBN:
- 9780190888046
- 0190888040
- OCLC:
- 1080556019
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