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Author
Language
English
Description
"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
1220L
Physical Desc
xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society----where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery....
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
xviii, 253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"All too many kids of color get 'the talk.' The talk about where to keep their hands, how to wear their clothes, how to speak, how to act around police-an honest talk, a talk about survival in a racist world. The get "the talk" because they must. But white kids don't get this talk. Instead, they're barely spoken to about race at all-and that needs to change. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an accessible, anecdotal,...
Author
Publisher
Elephant Room Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 273 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color left her wondering what she was missing. Then, in 2009,...
Author
Series
Publisher
A Kids Book About
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws, schools, stories, and other inistitutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color." -- back cover.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Tattoos. Unwed pregnancy. Giving up on shaving...showering...and employment. These used to be signatures of a trashy individual. Now they're the new norm. What happened to etiquette, hygiene, and self restraint? Charlotte Hays, Southern gentlewoman extraordinaire, takes a humorous look at the spread of white trash culture to all levels of American society.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as physician Jonathan M. Metzl shows in Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, Metzl examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Revised and updated edition, [3rd ed.].
Physical Desc
xv, 271 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is part memoir, part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits, in relative terms, those...
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Poor or marginal whites occupy an uncharted space in recent identity studies, particularly because they do not easily fit the model of whiteness-as-power proposed by many multiculturalist or minority discourses. Associated in mainstream culture with "trashy" kitsch or dangerous pathologies rather than with the material realities of economic life, poor whites are treated as degraded caricatures rather than as real people living in conditions of poverty...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass. In this book the author explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 195 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly,...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color left her wondering what she was missing. Then, in 2009,...