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Updated ed. with a new pref. and afterword. |
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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media-people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to in. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Someplace Like America: An Introduction; Snapshots from the Road, 2009; Part 1. America Begins a Thirty-Year Journey to Nowhere: The 1980s; 1. On Becoming a Hobo; 2. Necropolis; 3. New Timer; 4. Home Sweet Tent; 5. True Bottom; Part 2. The Journey Continues: The 1990s; 6. Inspiration: The Two-Way Highway; 7. Waiting for an Explosion; 8. When Bruce Met Jenny; Part 3. A Nation Grows Hungrier: 2000; 9. Hunger in the Homes; 10. The Working Poor: Maggie and Others in Austin; 11. Mr. Murray on Maggie. |
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Part 4. Updating People and Places: The Late 2000s12. Reinduction; 13. Necropolis: After the Apocalypse; 14. New Timer: Finding Mr. Heisenberg Instead; 15. Home Sweet Tent Home; 16. Maggie: "Am I Doing the Right Thing?"; 17. Maggie on Mr. Murray; Part 5. America with the Lid Ripped off: The Late 2000s; 18. Search and Rescue; 19. New Orleans Jazz; 20. Scapegoats in the Sun; 21. The Dark Experiment; 22. The Big Boys; 23. Anger in Suburban New Jersey; Part 6. Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America on a Journey to Somewhere New; 24. Zen in a Crippled New Hampshire Mill Town. |
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25. A Woman of the Soil in Kansas City26. The Phoenix?; 27. Looking Forward-and Back; Coda; Afterword; Acknowledgments and Credits; Notes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class -- United States -- Case studies.
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Working class. |
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United States. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Working poor -- United States -- Case studies.
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Working poor. |
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Unemployed -- United States -- Case studies.
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Unemployed. |
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Poverty -- United States -- Case studies.
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Poverty. |
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Economic conditions. |
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21st century |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maharidge, Dale. Someplace Like America. University of California Press 2013 9780520274518 |
| ISBN |
9780520956506 (electronic book) |
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0520956508 (electronic book) |
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129947652X (electronic book) |
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9781299476523 (electronic book) |
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