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We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America

2019

Title:	We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America / Jennifer M. Silva.
Author:	Silva, Jennifer M., author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Description:	xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:	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.
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.
Other Title:	We are still here
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.
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.
ISBN:	9780190888046
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Jennifer M. Silva is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. Her first book, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty, examined the transition to adulthood for working-class Millennials. - (Oxford University Press)

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