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Rural Poverty in the United States
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Edited by:
Ann Tickamyer
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English
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2017
About this book
In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. It take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and uses their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans.
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Ann Tickamyer is professor of rural sociology in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education in the College of Agricultural Science at Pennsylvania State University. She is the coeditor of Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America (2011) and coauthor of Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java: A Tale of Two Villages (2012).
Jennifer Sherman is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. She is the author of Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America (2009).
Jennifer Warlick is associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Notre Dame and the director of their Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. She has also been an economist at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and a fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty.
Jennifer Sherman is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. She is the author of Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America (2009).
Jennifer Warlick is associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Notre Dame and the director of their Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. She has also been an economist at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and a fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty.
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Tom Rudel, Rutgers University:
Rural Poverty in the United States provides the most comprehensive analysis in decades of living conditions among poor people in rural America. It is a superb example of ‘actionable social science.’
Rural Poverty in the United States provides the most comprehensive analysis in decades of living conditions among poor people in rural America. It is a superb example of ‘actionable social science.’
Linda Lobao, The Ohio State University:
This book covers the historical development of rural poverty research and policy, brings together the core theoretical literature, and addresses significant substantive issues including food insecurity, race, migration, and housing. The breadth is remarkable. No other volume exists today that draws the literature together so comprehensively and engagingly.
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
xi - PART I. Geography and Demography of Rural America
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1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There?
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2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now
28 - PART II. Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty
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3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship
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4. How to Explain Poverty?
84 - PART III. Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places
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5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty
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Case Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997)
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6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America
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Case Study: Engaging Black Geographies—How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South
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7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America
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Case Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents
193 - PART IV. Community and Societal Institutions
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8 Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital
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Case Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington
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9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts
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Case Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou—Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization
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10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity
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Case Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West
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11. The Environment and Health
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Case Study: The Environment and Health
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12. Education and Information
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Case Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region
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13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality
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Case Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland
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14. The Safety Net in Rural America
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15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth
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16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples
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CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
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September 25, 2017
eBook ISBN:
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464
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62 figures
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