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Author: Dale Maharidge Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520956508 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 349
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With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media—people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study—begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe—puts a human face on today’s grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.
Author: Dale Maharidge Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520262476 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life the deepening crisis of poverty and homelessness. They follow the lives of several families over 30 years to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless.
Author: Mark Singer Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618581689 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
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Mark Singer's lively and extremely popular "U.S. Journal" column in The New Yorker featured under-the-radar stories that were unusual but emblematic tales of American life. A first-time collection of these pieces, Somewhere in America offers an illuminating glimpse of the cultural kaleidoscope of our country. From worm farmers in Weleetka, Oklahoma, to angry nudists in Wilmington, Vermont, Singer proves that "sometimes you don't even need a passport to experience a new nation" (U.S. News & World Report).
Author: Dale Maharidge Publisher: Seven Stories Press ISBN: 9781583226575 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 372
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 1990 In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans’s project, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively lay to rest Agee’s fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects. Williamson’s ninety-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans’s classic originals. Maharidge and Williamson’s work in And Their Children After Them was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction when it was first published in 1990.
Author: Sandra Dallas Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press ISBN: 1534146210 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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In 1933, what's left of the Turner family--twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers--finds itself driving the back roads of rural America. The children have been swept up into a new migratory way of life. America is facing two devastating crises: the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the country have lost jobs. In rural America it isn't any better as crops suffer from the never-ending drought. Driven by severe economic hardship, thousands of people take to the road to seek whatever work they can find, often splintering fragile families in the process. As the Turner children move from town to town, searching for work and trying to cobble together the basic necessities of life, they are met with suspicion and hostility. They are viewed as outsiders in their own country. Will they ever find a place to call home? New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas gives middle-grade readers a timely story of young people searching for a home and a better way of life.
Author: Dale Beran Publisher: All Points Books ISBN: 1250219477 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 256
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How 4chan and 8chan fuel white nationalism, inspire violence, and infect politics. The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers. Strangely, both movements began on the same website: an anime imageboard called 4chan.org. It Came from Something Awful is the fascinating and bizarre story of sites like 4chan and 8chan and their profound effect on youth counterculture. Dale Beran has observed the anonymous messageboard community's shifting activities and interests since the beginning. Sites like 4chan and 8chan are microcosms of the internet itself—simultaneously at the vanguard of contemporary culture, politics, comedy and language, and a new low for all of the above. They were the original meme machines, mostly frequented by socially awkward and disenfranchised young men in search of a place to be alone together. During the recession of the late 2000’s, the memes became political. 4chan was the online hub of a leftist hacker collective known as Anonymous and a prominent supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. But within a few short years, the site’s ideology spun on its axis; it became the birthplace and breeding ground of the alt-right. In It Came from Something Awful, Beran uses his insider’s knowledge and natural storytelling ability to chronicle 4chan's strange journey from creating rage-comics to inciting riots to—according to some—memeing Donald Trump into the White House.
Author: Dale Maharidge Publisher: ISBN: Category : Marginality, Social Languages : en Pages : 300
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Examines the life of Blackie, a hobo for sixty years, as he chooses to defend his life on the banks of the Sacramento and fight America's changing attitude toward the homeless.
Author: Cristina Henríquez Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385350856 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.
Author: Michael Leach Publisher: Doubleday Books ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
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An anthology of first-person anecdotes, thought-provoking essays, historical documents, quotes, and illustrations, "I Like Being an American" offers captivating perspectives on the sense of pride, loyalty, and gratitude that inspires and sustains Americans in good times and bad. The contributors range from such well-known figures as Colin Powell (who honors the American GI), Bill Bradley (who reveals in a simple story the complexities of America's race relations), Anna Quinlan (whose "Quilt of a Country" embraces the American tradition of tolerance and multiculturalism) to immigrants from every corner of the globe, who celebrate the myriad opportunities and freedoms of their new homeland. A chapter on the American hero celebrates the five new role models of the country -- teachers, firefighters, GIs, parents, and volunteers -- each section written with the warmth and candor reminiscent of the neighbor next door. And one of the nation's favorite pastimes -- the creation of top-ten lists -- is represented, too, in a delightful miscellany that embraces everything from songs, movies, and books."I Like Being an American" is not about patriotism or nationalism or any ism. It is simply about what the philosopher Teilhard de Chardin called "the chosen part of things." Entertaining, enlightening, and at times controversial, it is a book of rare candor and of great spirit, showcasing in words and pictures why 300 million people -- famous and unknown, young, old, midd
Author: Dale Maharidge
Author: Dale Maharidge
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