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The Hero's Fight - African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The Hero's Fight - African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with
factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to
some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's
Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of
deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore's urban poor, and
sheds critical light on the unintended consequences of welfare
policy on our most vulnerable communities. Drawing on her own
uniquely immersive brand of fieldwork, conducted over the course of
a decade in the neighborhoods of West Baltimore, Patricia
Fernandez-Kelly tells the stories of people like D. B. Wilson, Big
Floyd, Towanda, and others whom the American welfare state treats
with a mixture of contempt and pity--what Fernandez-Kelly calls
"ambivalent benevolence." She shows how growing up poor in the
richest nation in the world involves daily interactions with agents
of the state, an experience that differs significantly from that of
more affluent populations. While ordinary Americans are treated as
citizens and consumers, deprived and racially segregated
populations are seen as objects of surveillance, containment, and
punishment. Fernandez-Kelly provides new insights into such topics
as globalization and its effects on industrial decline and
employment, the changing meanings of masculinity and femininity
among the poor, social and cultural capital in poor neighborhoods,
and the unique roles played by religion and entrepreneurship in
destitute communities. Blending compelling portraits with in-depth
scholarly analysis, The Hero's Fight explores how the welfare state
contributes to the perpetuation of urban poverty in America.
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