Dividing paradise rural inequality and the diminishing American dream
Prologue : discovering paradise -- Introduction : rural deindustrialization, decline, and rebirth -- Changing times in paradise -- Living the dream : newcomers making it work in paradise -- Trouble in paradise : old-timers' struggles to survive -- "Certain circles" : the deepening div...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2021
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue : discovering paradise -- Introduction : rural deindustrialization, decline, and rebirth -- Changing times in paradise -- Living the dream : newcomers making it work in paradise -- Trouble in paradise : old-timers' struggles to survive -- "Certain circles" : the deepening divide -- Paradise lost : making sense of community change and the elusive American Dream -- Conclusion : crossing the divide and reclaiming the dream -- Appendix A : methods, sample, and local demographic information -- Appendix B : the newcomer/old-timer distinction. "Dividing Paradise tells the story of a rural American community whose economic growth resulted in increasing inequality and divisions between those who can and those who cannot achieve their rural visions of the American dream. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observation with individuals on both sides of the divide, the book explores the contributors to and impacts of this stark inequality that has become commonplace across the United States. It exposes the mechanisms by which inequality flourishes and by which Americans have come to believe that it is acceptable and deserved"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 266 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780520305144 978-0-520-30514-4 9780520305137 978-0-520-30513-7 9780520973275 |