White Poverty : How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy Hardback
by William J. Barber
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When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces.
As a teenager, Reverend William J Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem.
In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions, Barber—now a leading advocate for the rights of America's poor and the “closest person we have to Dr King” (Cornel West)—addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together the tens of millions working-class and impoverished whites with low-income Blacks.
Recognising that angry social media posts have replaced food, education and housing as a “salve” for the white poor, Barber contends that the millions of America’s lowest-income earners have much in common, and together with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, provides one of the most sympathetic and visionary approaches to endemic poverty in decades.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 12 black-and-white illustrations
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:19/07/2024
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- ISBN:9781324094876
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Pre-OrderFree UK DeliveryThis title is available for pre-order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 12 black-and-white illustrations
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:19/07/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781324094876