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Abandoned in the Heartland : Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis / / Jennifer Hamer



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Autore: Hamer Jennifer Visualizza persona
Titolo: Abandoned in the Heartland : Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis / / Jennifer Hamer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 244 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 305.5/620977389
Soggetto topico: Working class - East Saint Louis - Illinois
African Americans - Illinois - East Saint Louis
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions
Soggetto geografico: East Saint Louis (Ill.) Social conditions 21st century
East Saint Louis (Ill.) Economic conditions 21st century
Soggetto non controllato: african american culture
american suburbs
changing city
city centers
city services
collapsing infrastructure
contemporary america
courage
crime
dangerous environment
dead end jobs
east st louis
fortitude
illinois
industrial suburbs
isolated city
jobs
protecting children
quality schools
searching for meaning
toxic
unemployment
urban poverty
working class
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- CHAPTER ONE. In America's Heartland -- CHAPTER TWO. East St. Louisans and Their Cars -- CHAPTER THREE. Work and Meaning in a Jobless Suburb -- CHAPTER FOUR. Hustling, Clean and Dirty -- CHAPTER FIVE. "Around here, women never get done workin' " -- CHAPTER SIX. "Gotta protect my own" -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Cost of Abandonment -- Epilogue. Obama and East St. Louis -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis's predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.
Titolo autorizzato: Abandoned in the Heartland  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27842-1
9786613278425
0-520-95017-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819387803321
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Serie: George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.