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Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis's predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.

Working class --- African Americans --- East Saint Louis (Ill.) --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- african american culture. --- american suburbs. --- changing city. --- city centers. --- city services. --- collapsing infrastructure. --- contemporary america. --- courage. --- crime. --- dangerous environment. --- dead end jobs. --- east st louis. --- fortitude. --- illinois. --- industrial suburbs. --- isolated city. --- jobs. --- protecting children. --- quality schools. --- searching for meaning. --- toxic. --- unemployment. --- urban poverty. --- working class.

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Backlash against Welfare Mothers is a forceful examination of how and why a state-level revolt against welfare, begun in the late 1940's, was transformed into a national-level assault that destroyed a critical part of the nation's safety net, with tragic consequences for American society. With a wealth of original research, Ellen Reese puts recent debates about the contemporary welfare backlash into historical perspective. She provides a closer look at these early antiwelfare campaigns, showing why they were more successful in some states than others and how opponents of welfare sometimes targeted Puerto Ricans and Chicanos as well as blacks for cutbacks. Her research reveals both the continuities and changes in American welfare opposition from the late 1940's to the present. Reese brings new evidence to light that reveals how large farmers and racist politicians, concerned about the supply of cheap labor, appealed to white voters' racial resentments and stereotypes about unwed mothers, blacks, and immigrants in the 1950's. She then examines congressional failure to replace the current welfare system with a more popular alternative in the 1960's and 1970's, which paved the way for national assaults on welfare. Taking a fresh look at recent debates on welfare reform, she explores how and why politicians competing for the white vote and right-wing think tanks promoting business interests appeased the Christian right and manufactured consent for cutbacks through a powerful, racially coded discourse. Finally, through firsthand testimonies, Reese vividly portrays the tragic consequences of current welfare policies and calls for a bold new agenda for working families.

Single mothers --- Aid to families with dependent children programs. --- Welfare recipients --- Public welfare --- Mothers --- Single parents --- Single women --- ADC programs --- AFDC programs --- Aid to dependent children programs --- Government policy --- Employment --- History. --- United States --- Social policy. --- 1940s. --- 20th century. --- african americans. --- america. --- american society. --- american welfare. --- antiwelfare campaigns. --- black americans. --- chicanos. --- contemporary america. --- demographic studies. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- historical perspective. --- low income families. --- motherhood. --- mothers. --- nonfiction. --- parenting. --- political history. --- politicians. --- puerto ricans. --- racism. --- safety net. --- welfare culture. --- welfare history. --- welfare opposition. --- welfare policies. --- welfare system. --- working class families.

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How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors that explain the presence of unskilled immigrants in our midst. Focusing on Los Angeles, the capital of today's immigrant America, this hard-hitting book elucidates the other side of the new economy, showing that hiring is finding not so much "one's own kind" but rather the "right kind" to fit the demeaning, but indispensable, jobs many American workers disdain.

Alien labor. --- Alien labor-- California-- Los Angeles County. --- California. --- Employer attitude surveys. --- Immigrants - Social networks - California - Los Angeles County. --- Los Angeles County. --- Unskilled labor. --- Unskilled labor - California - Los Angeles County. --- Foreign workers --- Unskilled labor --- Immigrants --- Employer attitude surveys --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Social networks --- #SBIB:316.334.2A342 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:316.8H16 --- Arbeidssociologie: ongelijkheden op de arbeidsmarkt: migranten op de arbeidsmarkt --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: migranten, rassenrelaties --- Laborers --- Low-skilled labor --- Low-skilled workers --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Attitude surveys, Employer --- Management attitude surveys --- Alien labor --- Aliens --- Foreign labor --- Guest workers --- Guestworkers --- Immigrant labor --- Immigrant workers --- Migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Employment --- Labor --- Persons --- Surveys --- Employees --- California --- Los Angeles County (Calif.) --- Noncitizen labor --- Noncitizens --- career. --- civic. --- class issues. --- contemporary america. --- historians. --- historical. --- history. --- immigrant experience. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- labor and culture. --- labor issues. --- labor organizations. --- labor studies. --- los angeles. --- migrant workers. --- modern economy. --- modern history. --- nonfiction. --- political science. --- political. --- race and class. --- social issues. --- social studies. --- sociology. --- students and teachers. --- survey. --- textbooks. --- unskilled immigrants. --- unskilled workers. --- workforce.

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Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political correctness, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, O. J. Simpson's murder trial, the Ebonics controversy, and the Clinton sex scandal--Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore it is worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle- to upper-class white men for a share in "language rights." Lakoff's introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet what she calls the UAT (Undue Attention Test). As the stories became the subject of talk-show debates, late-night comedy routines, Web sites, and magazine articles, they were embroidered with additional meanings, depending on who was telling the story. Race, gender, or both are at the heart of these stories, and each one is about the right to construct meanings from language in short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we are connected to one another, who has power and who does not, the stories reflect the language war. We use language to analyze what we call "reality," the author argues, but we mistrust how language is used today--witness the "politics of personal destruction" following the Clinton impeachment. Yet Lakoff sees in the struggle over language a positive goal: equality in the creation of our national discourse. Her writing is accessible and witty, and her excerpts from the media are used to great effect.

Sociolinguistics --- Mass media and language --- Power (Social sciences) --- Language and mass media --- Language and languages --- United States --- ABŞ --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americké --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- ZSA --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Америка (Republic) --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- САЩ --- Съединените щати --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- ولايات المتحدة --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- 미국 --- Languages --- Political aspects. --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- #SBIB:012.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:309H518 --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- african american. --- american history. --- american society. --- anita hill. --- clarence thomas. --- contemporary america. --- discourse. --- ebonics. --- gender. --- government. --- language. --- law and order. --- legal issues. --- media. --- modern america. --- modern american. --- modern society. --- modern world. --- murder trial. --- news. --- oj simpson. --- political correctness. --- politics. --- pop culture. --- power. --- race. --- racism. --- reality. --- sex scandal. --- trials. --- united states history. --- us history. --- womens issues. --- womens studies.