We're Still Here
Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:
Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Working class -- United States -- Attitudes.
Working class -- Political activity -- United States.
Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- United States.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016.
United States -- Social conditions.
Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Working class -- United States -- Attitudes.
Working class -- Political activity -- United States.
Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- United States.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016.
United States -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780190888046
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Class Sil | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.