Rural poverty in the United States / Jennifer Sherman, Ann Tickamyer, Jennifer Warlick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherman, Jennifer.

Tickamyer, Ann.

Warlick, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural poor--United States.

Rural poor.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

America's rural areas have always held a disproportionate share of the nation's poorest populations. Rural Poverty in the United States examines why. What is it about the geography, demography, and history of rural communities that keeps them poor? In a comprehensive analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, Rural Poverty in the United States looks at access to human and social capital; food security; healthcare and the environment; homelessness; gender roles and relations; racial inequalities; and immigration trends to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty.Contributors to this volume incorporate approaches from multiple disciplines, including sociology, economics, demography, race and gender studies, public health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, and other social science fields. They take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and use their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans for years to come. These essays work hard to define rural poverty's specific metrics and markers, a critical step for building better policy and practice. Considering gender, race, and immigration, the book appreciates the overlooked structural and institutional dimensions of ongoing rural poverty and its larger social consequences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. Geography and Demography of Rural America

1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There?

2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now

PART II. Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty

3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship

4. How to Explain Poverty?

PART III. Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places

5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty

Case Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997)

6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America

Case Study: Engaging Black Geographies—How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South

7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America

Case Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents

PART IV. Community and Societal Institutions

8 Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital

Case Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington

9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts

Case Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou—Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization

10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity

Case Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West

11. The Environment and Health

Case Study: The Environment and Health

12. Education and Information

Case Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region

13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality

Case Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland

PART V. Programs, Policy, and Politics

14. The Safety Net in Rural America

15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth

16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples

CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780231544719

0231544715

OCLC:

1000392569