We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America /
Silva, Jennifer M.,
We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America / We are still here Jennifer M. Silva. - xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780190888046 0190888040
2018048646
Working class--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
Working class--Attitudes.--United States
Working class--Political activity--United States.
Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--United States.
Presidents--Election--United States--2016.
United States--Social conditions.
We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America / We are still here Jennifer M. Silva. - xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780190888046 0190888040
2018048646
Working class--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
Working class--Attitudes.--United States
Working class--Political activity--United States.
Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--United States.
Presidents--Election--United States--2016.
United States--Social conditions.