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We're Still Here - Pain and Politics in the Heart of America (Hardcover)
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We're Still Here - Pain and Politics in the Heart of America (Hardcover)
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The economy has been brutal to American workers for several
decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's
own-the promise at the heart of the American Dream-is withering
away. In turn, "deaths of despair" such as drug overdoses,
suicides, and cirrhosis of the liver are rising among the working
class. The 2016 elections threw into sharp relief how little we
know about how working-class people translate their grievances into
politics. In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep,
multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long
after Trump and the elections of 2016. Drawing on over 100
interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of
a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva proposes that the key
to understanding the puzzle of working-class politics is to
understand how the decline of the American Dream is lived and felt.
In the post-industrial age, the routines and rhythms of traditional
working-class life such as manual labor, unions, marriage, church,
and social clubs have diminished. Moreover, the institutions that
have historically mediated between individual, personal struggles
and broader, collective political coalitions have become active
sites of betrayal. In this void, individual strategies for coping
with pain, and finding personal redemption, have themselves become
sources of political stimulus and reaction among the working class.
In the coal region, understanding how generations of Democratic
voters come to reject the social safety net and often politics
altogether requires moving beyond simple partisanship into a maze
of addiction, joblessness, family disruption, violence, and trauma.
How working-class men and women put the pieces back together - if
they do at all-will have grave consequences for the future of
American democracy. We're Still Here provides powerful, on the
ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and
politics that will spark new tensions but also open up the
possibility for shifting alliances and new possibilities.
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