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We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America / Jennifer M. Silva.

LIBRA HD8072.5 .S576 2019
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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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