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The Hero´s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
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Description for The Hero´s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
Hardback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 11 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JM; JFFA; JFSL3; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 760.
Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore's urban poor, and sheds critical light on the unintended consequences of welfare policy on our most vulnerable communities. Drawing on her own uniquely immersive brand of fieldwork, conducted over the course of a decade in the neighborhoods of West Baltimore, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly tells the stories of people like D. B. Wilson, ... Read more
Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore's urban poor, and sheds critical light on the unintended consequences of welfare policy on our most vulnerable communities. Drawing on her own uniquely immersive brand of fieldwork, conducted over the course of a decade in the neighborhoods of West Baltimore, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly tells the stories of people like D. B. Wilson, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691162843
SKU
V9780691162843
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About Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly is senior lecturer in sociology at Princeton University. Her books include For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier. She coproduced the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Global Assembly Line.
Reviews for The Hero´s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
Finalist for the 2015 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems "[T]his thought-provoking book
and the comprehensive research behind it
could, if heeded, help alleviate some of society's most intractable problems."
Publishers Weekly "[A] compelling and nuanced examination of the intersections of race, gender, and poverty... The author makes a significant theoretical contribution to the poverty literature that moves ... Read more
and the comprehensive research behind it
could, if heeded, help alleviate some of society's most intractable problems."
Publishers Weekly "[A] compelling and nuanced examination of the intersections of race, gender, and poverty... The author makes a significant theoretical contribution to the poverty literature that moves ... Read more