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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 206 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva reveals how the decline of the American Dream is lived and felt. The routines and rhythms of traditional working-class life such as manual labor, unions, marriage, church, and social clubs have diminished. In their place, she argues, individualized strategies for coping with pain, and finding personal redemption, have...
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