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In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessnes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maharidge, Dale
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Edición:Updated ed. with a new pref. and afterword.
Temas:
2000-2099
Working class > United States > Case studies.
Working poor > United States > Case studies.
Unemployed > United States > Case studies.
Poverty > United States > Case studies.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Travailleurs pauvres > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Chômeurs > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Pauvreté > États-Unis > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Economic history
Poverty
Social conditions
Unemployed
Working class
Working poor
United States > Economic conditions > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques > 21e siècle.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Someplace Like America: An Introduction; Snapshots from the Road, 2009; Part 1. America Begins a Thirty-Year Journey to Nowhere: The 1980s; 1. On Becoming a Hobo; 2. Necropolis; 3. New Timer; 4. Home Sweet Tent; 5. True Bottom; Part 2. The Journey Continues: The 1990s; 6. Inspiration: The Two-Way Highway; 7. Waiting for an Explosion; 8. When Bruce Met Jenny; Part 3. A Nation Grows Hungrier: 2000; 9. Hunger in the Homes; 10. The Working Poor: Maggie and Others in Austin; 11. Mr. Murray on Maggie.
  • Part 4. Updating People and Places: The Late 2000s12. Reinduction; 13. Necropolis: After the Apocalypse; 14. New Timer: Finding Mr. Heisenberg Instead; 15. Home Sweet Tent Home; 16. Maggie: "Am I Doing the Right Thing?"; 17. Maggie on Mr. Murray; Part 5. America with the Lid Ripped off: The Late 2000s; 18. Search and Rescue; 19. New Orleans Jazz; 20. Scapegoats in the Sun; 21. The Dark Experiment; 22. The Big Boys; 23. Anger in Suburban New Jersey; Part 6. Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America on a Journey to Somewhere New; 24. Zen in a Crippled New Hampshire Mill Town.
  • 25. A Woman of the Soil in Kansas City26. The Phoenix?; 27. Looking Forward-and Back; Coda; Afterword; Acknowledgments and Credits; Notes.

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