We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America Silva Jennifer M.
A deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics.The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the…
Specifikacia We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America Silva Jennifer M.
A deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics.The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the promise at the heart of the American Dream -- is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized working-class communities will instinctively rise up, the 2016 election threw into sharp relief how little we know about how the working-class translate their grievances into politics.In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, 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 decline of the American Dream is lived and felt.