Arnade, Chris

Summary: "Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.509 ARN

Edin, Kathryn J.

Summary: "A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harrisand her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 EDI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 EDI

Maharidge, Dale

Summary: "Nonfiction memoir and social history by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Dale Maharidge sharing the lives, images, and experiences of the American poor around the United States from Great Depression era America to COVID and economic downturn in 2020 - examines themes of class, race, and privilege, and connects these stories to activists currently working to create economic justice"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 MAH

Summary: "A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 GOI

Harris, Duchess

Summary: What started as a hashtag in 2013 quickly grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter examines the police shootings that fueled the movement, the events that led up to racial tensions in the United States, and the goals the movement has set for the future. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.8960 HAR

Egan, Timothy

Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 EGA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 EGA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.03 EGA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Egan