Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity

Navigating Insecurities in an American City

AvStephanie M. Baran

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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In Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City, Stephanie Baran argues that when it comes to assistance the United States government often creates more problems than it solves. These institutions are not in the business of creating a pathway for people to escape poverty, often compounding that poverty instead. Through a two-year ethnographic study of poverty and insecurity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the author shows how people navigate situations of poverty through interviews with recipients and organizations as well as those working at a local community pantry. Consequently, research uncovered how local food organizations with connections to the Milwaukee Chapter of the Black Panther Party hide their more radical roots to protect food donations from white donors, in essence protecting white fragility. People are far closer to experiencing poverty than they realize, as shown by the Government Shutdown of 2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and typically have incomplete and inaccurate ideas of poverty as well as how people can experience upward mobility. Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity reveals this gap through a focus on how all these factors show up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-22
Mått:154 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt:381 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793608550

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Stephanie M. Baran is instructor at Nicholls State University.

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Written in an invitingly accessible tone, Dr. Baran elucidates how social class, race, and gender influence the ways welfare recipients are negatively perceived by others and how these biased perceptions affect welfare recipients’ abilities to navigate their own social milieu. The principled consideration and civic engagement Dr. Baran provided her participants and their community serve as an exemplar for how sociologists should ethically conduct community-based field research. This apt critique of problems in our current welfare system encourages readers to reflect on our own social standing and recognize that the majority of us are in much more precarious positions than we may have previously thought.

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Table of ContentsList of FiguresAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on MethodologyIntroductionChapter 1“Let’s go eat in the office”: Life at a Milwaukee Food PantryChapter 2Benefits: How Public Perceptions Hurt Recipient AccessChapter 3Perceptions of PovertyChapter 4 Food Insecurity in an American CityChapter 5Outside the pantryChapter 6What happens when a government ‘fails’ to act?Chapter 7“I feel like a rat in a race”: The Benefit ExperienceChapter 8Hunger Task Force: Your Free & Local Food BankConclusion An Ode to My Time at Feed the NeedBibliographyAbout the Author