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The other America : poverty in the United States / Michael Harrington, with a new foreword by Maurice Isserman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2012, 1962Edition: Scribner trade paperback edition ; Fiftieth anniversary editionDescription: xxix, 237 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780684826783
  • 068482678X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5690973 23
LOC classification:
  • HC110.P6 H373 2012
Contents:
Foreword to The other America / by Maurice Isserman -- Introduction / by Irving Howe -- The invisible land -- The rejects -- Pastures of plenty -- If you're black, stay back -- Three poverties -- The golden years -- The twisted spirit -- Old slums, new slums -- The two nations -- Appendix: definitions -- Afterword: Poverty in the seventies -- Poverty and the eighties -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: When this book was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the War on Poverty. The author shed light on the lives of the poor - from farm to city - and the social forces that relegated them to poverty. He was determined to make poverty in the United States visible, and his observations and analyses have had a profound effect on our country - from how we view the poor to the policies implemented to fight poverty. In the fifty years since it was published, this book has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This book is still all too relevant for today's America.
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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 305.569 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 901501
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Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1962.

Foreword to The other America / by Maurice Isserman -- Introduction / by Irving Howe -- The invisible land -- The rejects -- Pastures of plenty -- If you're black, stay back -- Three poverties -- The golden years -- The twisted spirit -- Old slums, new slums -- The two nations -- Appendix: definitions -- Afterword: Poverty in the seventies -- Poverty and the eighties -- Acknowledgments.

When this book was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the War on Poverty. The author shed light on the lives of the poor - from farm to city - and the social forces that relegated them to poverty. He was determined to make poverty in the United States visible, and his observations and analyses have had a profound effect on our country - from how we view the poor to the policies implemented to fight poverty. In the fifty years since it was published, this book has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This book is still all too relevant for today's America.

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