Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136767908
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can b
Outlaw Culture
Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136767908
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can b
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136767908
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can b
Poor Representation
Author: Kristina C. Miler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108473504
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108473504
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The poor are grossly underrepresented in Congress both overall and by individual legislators, even those who represent high-poverty districts.
Disciplining the Poor
Author: Joe Soss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768767
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768767
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.
Just Give Money to the Poor
Author: Joseph Hanlon
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 1565493907
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts * Team authored by foremost scholars in the development field Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money directly to the poor and discovering that they use it wisely “ to send their children to school, to start a business and to feed their families. Directly challenging an aid industry that thrives on complexity and mystification, with highly paid consultants designing ever more complicated projects, Just Give Money to the Pooroffers the elegant southern alternative “ bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money. Stressing that cash transfers are not charity or a safety net, the authors draw an outline of effective practices that work precisely because they are regular, guaranteed and fair. This book, the first to report on this quiet revolution in an accessible way, is essential reading for policymakers, students of international development and anyone yearning for an alternative to traditional poverty-alleviation methods.
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 1565493907
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts * Team authored by foremost scholars in the development field Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money directly to the poor and discovering that they use it wisely “ to send their children to school, to start a business and to feed their families. Directly challenging an aid industry that thrives on complexity and mystification, with highly paid consultants designing ever more complicated projects, Just Give Money to the Pooroffers the elegant southern alternative “ bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money. Stressing that cash transfers are not charity or a safety net, the authors draw an outline of effective practices that work precisely because they are regular, guaranteed and fair. This book, the first to report on this quiet revolution in an accessible way, is essential reading for policymakers, students of international development and anyone yearning for an alternative to traditional poverty-alleviation methods.
Putting Inequality in Context
Author: Christopher Ellis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Highlights the role of contextual factors, including class, in U.S. political inequality
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Highlights the role of contextual factors, including class, in U.S. political inequality
Food and Poverty
Author: Leslie Hossfeld
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
The Working Poor
Author: David K. Shipler
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307493407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. "This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." —The New York Times Book Review As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology—hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor—white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307493407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. "This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." —The New York Times Book Review As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology—hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor—white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.
Do the Poor Count?
Author: Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271037504
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"With specific focus on Brazil and Honduras, examines electoral and nominating institutions and clientelism in Latin America, and the capacity of poor people to monitor and sanction officials"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271037504
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"With specific focus on Brazil and Honduras, examines electoral and nominating institutions and clientelism in Latin America, and the capacity of poor people to monitor and sanction officials"--Provided by publisher.
Who Speaks for the Poor?
Author: Karen Long Jusko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419887
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419887
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.
Poor Queer Studies
Author: Matt Brim
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478009144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges; with no research budget; without access to decent food; with kids in tow; in a state of homelessness. Drawing on the everyday experiences of teaching and learning queer studies at the College of Staten Island, Brim outlines the ways the field has been driven by the material and intellectual resources of those institutions that neglect and rarely serve poor and minority students. By exploring poor and working-class queer ideas and laying bare the structural and disciplinary mechanisms of inequality that suppress them, Brim jumpstarts a queer-class knowledge project committed to anti-elitist and anti-racist education. Poor Queer Studies is essential for all of those who care about the state of higher education and building a more equitable academy.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478009144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges; with no research budget; without access to decent food; with kids in tow; in a state of homelessness. Drawing on the everyday experiences of teaching and learning queer studies at the College of Staten Island, Brim outlines the ways the field has been driven by the material and intellectual resources of those institutions that neglect and rarely serve poor and minority students. By exploring poor and working-class queer ideas and laying bare the structural and disciplinary mechanisms of inequality that suppress them, Brim jumpstarts a queer-class knowledge project committed to anti-elitist and anti-racist education. Poor Queer Studies is essential for all of those who care about the state of higher education and building a more equitable academy.