We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America Silva Jennifer M.
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…
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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. 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. 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.
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. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics that will endure long after the Trump administration.
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