Hero's Fight

African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State

AvPatricia Fernández-Kelly

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore's urban poor, and sheds critical light on the unintended consequences of welfare policy on our most vulnerable communities. Drawing on her own uniquely immersive brand of fieldwork, conducted over the course of a decade in the neighborhoods of West Baltimore, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly tells the stories of people like D. B. Wilson, Big Floyd, Towanda, and others whom the American welfare state treats with a mixture of contempt and pity--what Fernandez-Kelly calls "ambivalent benevolence." She shows how growing up poor in the richest nation in the world involves daily interactions with agents of the state, an experience that differs significantly from that of more affluent populations. While ordinary Americans are treated as citizens and consumers, deprived and racially segregated populations are seen as objects of surveillance, containment, and punishment.Fernandez-Kelly provides new insights into such topics as globalization and its effects on industrial decline and employment, the changing meanings of masculinity and femininity among the poor, social and cultural capital in poor neighborhoods, and the unique roles played by religion and entrepreneurship in destitute communities. Blending compelling portraits with in-depth scholarly analysis, The Hero's Fight explores how the welfare state contributes to the perpetuation of urban poverty in America.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-01
Mått:152 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt:709 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:440
Förlag:Princeton University Press
ISBN:9780691162843

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Patricia Fernandez-Kelly is senior lecturer in sociology at Princeton University. Her books include For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier. She coproduced the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Global Assembly Line.

Recensioner i media

Finalist for the 2015 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems "[T]his thought-provoking book--and the comprehensive research behind it--could, if heeded, help alleviate some of society's most intractable problems."--Publishers Weekly "[A] compelling and nuanced examination of the intersections of race, gender, and poverty... The author makes a significant theoretical contribution to the poverty literature that moves beyond the bifurcated arguments of blaming the poor, or blaming the state for restricting opportunities to the poor."--Choice

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 D. B. Wilson 20 2 Baltimore: From Factory Town to City in Decline 38 3 Big Floyd 54 4 Intersections of Poverty, Race, and Gender in the American Ghetto 72 5 Shaping the Inner City: Urban Development and the American State 95 6 Distorted Engagement and Liminal Institutions: Ruling against the Poor 113 7 Little Floyd 132 8 Down the Rabbit Hole: Childhood Agency and the Problem of Liminality 151 9 Clarise 172 10 Paradoxes of Social Capital: Constructing Meaning, Recasting Culture 192 11 Towanda 213 12 Cultural Capital and the Transition to Adulthood in the Urban Ghetto 232 13 Lydia 253 14 Faith and Circumstance in West Baltimore 275 15 Manny Man 296 16 Divided Entrepreneurship and Neighborhood Effects 315 Conclusion: Distorted Engagement and the Great Ideological Divide 342 Appendix 357 Notes 361 Bibliography 375 Index 405