What's the Matter with White People? - Finding Our Way in the Next America (Paperback, Original)

A CLEAR-EYED, COGENT CLARION CALL FOR ENDING THE DIVISIVE CLASS WARS THAT THREATEN THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS DREAM
In "What's the Matter with White People? "Walsh argues that the biggest divide in America today is based not on party or ideology but on two competing explanations for why middle-class stability has been shaken since the 1970s. One side sees an America that has spent the last forty years bankrupting the country by providing benefits for the underachieving, the immoral, and the undeserving--no matter the cost to the majority of Americans. The other side sees an America that has spent the last forty years catering to the wealthy while allowing only a nominal measure of progress for the downtrodden.
Using her extended Irish-Catholic working-class family as a case in point and explaining her own political coming-of-age, Walsh shows how liberals unwittingly collaborated in the "us versus them" narrative and how the GOP's renewed culture war now scapegoats segments of its own white demographic.
Part memoir, part political history, "What's the Matter with White People? "is essential reading to combat political and cultural polarization and to build a more just and prosperous multiracial America in the years to come.
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

General

Imprint:	Touchstone Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	April 2013
Authors:	Joan Walsh
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	352
Edition:	Original
ISBN-13:	978-1-4767-3312-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political parties > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-4767-3312-0
Barcode:	9781476733128

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