Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION xi
5. PART I. Geography and Demography of Rural America
6. 1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There? 1
7. 2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now 28
8. PART II. Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty
9. 3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship 65
10. 4. How to Explain Poverty? 84
11. PART III. Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places
12. 5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty 115
13. Case Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997) 133
14. 6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America 141
15. Case Study: Engaging Black Geographies—How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South 163
16. 7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America 168
17. Case Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents 193
18. PART IV. Community and Societal Institutions
19. 8 Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital 203
20. Case Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington 226
21. 9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts 231
22. Case Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou—Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization 250
23. 10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity 257
24. Case Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West 288
25. 11. The Environment and Health 299
26. Case Study: The Environment and Health 313
27. 12. Education and Information 322
28. Case Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region 339
29. 13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality 349
30. Case Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland 377
31. PART V. Programs, Policy, and Politics
32. 14. The Safety Net in Rural America 387
33. 15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth 416
34. 16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples 439
35. CONTRIBUTORS 449
36. INDEX 455