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| Preface | |
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| Poverty in the United States and the Sociological Imagination | |
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| The Extent and Distribution of Poverty in the United States | |
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| The Sociological Imagination | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Theories of Poverty: Why Are the Poor Poor? | |
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| Theories of Poverty: Who or What Is to Blame for Poverty? | |
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| Individual Theories/Cultural Explanations | |
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| Structural Explanations | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Poverty or At Home in a Car | |
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| The Armstrongs: An Oral History of a Homeless American Family | |
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| Feeling Trapped | |
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| No 40 Acres and a Mule: An Interview with a Displaced Black Farmer | |
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| Notes of a Racial Caste Baby | |
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| Reflection Questions for Part II | |
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| Poverty and Vulnerability | |
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| One Step Away | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| A Veteran Speaks of the Forgotten Wounded of Iraq | |
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| On the Margins: The Lack of Resources and the Lack of Health Care | |
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| Personal Voices: An Unnatural Disaster | |
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| The Domino Effect | |
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| Reflection Questions for Part III | |
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| Living on the Economic Margins | |
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| Survival and Finances | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Ain't No Middle Class | |
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| The Working Poor | |
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| Discrimination/Racism/Stigma | |
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| The Stigmatizing of the Impoverished | |
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| The Consequences of Stigmatizing the Impoverished | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Dynamics of Welfare Stigma | |
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| Sunset Trailer Park | |
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| Migrants and the Community | |
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| At a Slaughterhouse | |
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| Parenting in Poverty | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Empty Christmas | |
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| Karla | |
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| Vinela Tejada: Custodian, Vanderbilt Hall, Harvard Medical School | |
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| Reflection Questions for Part IV | |
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| The Impact of Societal Institutions on Individual Lives | |
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| Housing/Homeless Shelters/Neighborhoods | |
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| Living in Poor Neighborhoods | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Shelter | |
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| The Residents of Rockwell Gardens | |
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| The Welfare System | |
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| The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Welfare As They Know It | |
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| Money: Milwaukee, Summer 1999 | |
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| Trapped in the Double-Bind of Welfare | |
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| Schools and Schooling | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Seventh Grade Disaster | |
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| Always Running | |
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| Work and Working | |
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| Wages | |
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| Alienation | |
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| Risk | |
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| Sweatshops | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Looking for Work, Waiting for Work | |
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| Chicken Run | |
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| The Story of a Garment Worker | |
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| Frank Morley: Custodian, Littauer Center for Public Administration | |
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| Reflection Questions for Part V | |
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| Individual and Collective Agency and Empowerment | |
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| Changes from the Bottom Up | |
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| Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Surviving Chicago's Toxic Doughnut | |
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| Welfare Rights Organizing Saved My Life | |
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| Josefina Flores: A Veteran of the War in the Fields | |
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| How Predatory Lending Victims Fought Back and Won | |
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| Reflection Questions for Part VI | |
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| Afterword | |
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| The Forgotten Children of Affluent America | |
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| Reflection Questions for the Book | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Web Sites | |
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| Index | |