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Invisible Americans

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Author : Jeff Madrick
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2020-01-28

Invisible Americans written by Jeff Madrick and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Social Science categories.

"A clarion call to address this most unjust blight upon the American landscape. Madrick has provided a valuable service in presenting a highly readable and cogent argument for change."--Mark R. Rank, The Washington Post By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government unmotivated to help the most voiceless citizens. Backed by new and unambiguous research, he makes clear the devastating consequences of growing up poor: living in poverty, even temporarily, is detrimental to cognitive abilities, emotional control, and the overall health of children. The cost to society is incalculable. The inaction of politicians is unacceptable. Still, Madrick argues, there may be more reason to hope now than ever before. Rather than attempting to treat the symptoms of poverty, we might be able to ameliorate its worst effects through a single, simple, and politically feasible policy that he lays out in this impassioned and urgent call to arms.

Invisible Americans

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

Invisible Americans written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Immigrants categories.

Invisible Child

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Author : Andrea Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2021-10-05

Invisible Child written by Andrea Elliott and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Social Science categories.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter “to protect those who I love.” When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize • Finalist for the Bernstein Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award

Invisible America

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Author : Mark P. Leone
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt
Release Date : 1995

Invisible America written by Mark P. Leone and has been published by Henry Holt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Material culture categories.

CULTURAL ARTIFACTS THAT LEAD TO EXPLORATION OF FORGOTTEN FACTS ABOUT AMERICAN SOCIETY. AMERICAN INCLUDES MATERIAL CULTURE.

Invisible Giants

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Author : Mark C. Carnes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2003-09

Invisible Giants written by Mark C. Carnes and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A collection of stories includes the insight of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helen Gurley Brown, and others on notable Americans whose contributions are much undervalued, including Christopher Isherwood, Albert Jay Nock, and Emma Goldman.

The Working Poor

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Author : David K. Shipler
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-11-12

The Working Poor written by David K. Shipler and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-12 with Social Science categories.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. "This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." —The New York Times Book Review As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology—hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor—white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.

Invisible Gardens

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Author : Peter Walker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1996

Invisible Gardens written by Peter Walker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.

Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modern aesthetic. The major protagonists include Thomas Church, Roberto Burle Marx, Isamu Noguchi, Luis Barragan, Daniel Urban Kiley, Stanley White, Hideo Sasaki, Ian McHarg, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo. They were the pioneers of a new profession in America, the first to offer alternatives to the historic landscape and the park tradition, as well as to the suburban sprawl and other unplanned developments of twentieth-century cities and institutions. The work is described against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the postwar recovery, American corporate expansion, and the environmental revolution. The authors look at unbuilt schemes as well as actual gardens, ranging from tiny backyards and play spaces to urban plazas and corporate villas. Some of the projects discussed already occupy a canonical position in modern landscape architecture; others deserve a similar place but are less well known. The result is a record of landscape architecture's cultural contribution - as distinctly different in history, intent, and procedure from its sister fields of architecture and planning - during the years when it was acquiring professional status and struggling to define a modernist aesthetic out of the startling changes in postwar America.

Race And Arab Americans Before And After 9 11

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Author : Amaney Jamal
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-27

Race And Arab Americans Before And After 9 11 written by Amaney Jamal and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-27 with Social Science categories.

Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the United States, this groundbreaking volume fills a critical gap in the field of U.S. racial and ethnic studies. The articles collected here highlight emergent discourses on the distinct ways that race matters to the study of Arab American histories and experiences and asks essential questions. What is the relationship between U.S. imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the United States? In what ways have the axes of nation, religion, class, and gender intersected with Arab American racial formations? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? Transcending multiculturalist discourses that have simply added on the category “Arab-American” to the landscape of U.S. racial and ethnic studies after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this volume locates September 11 as a turning point, rather than as a beginning, in Arab Americans’

Invisible

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Author : Grace Ji-Sun Kim
language : en
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Release Date : 2021-11-09

Invisible written by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and has been published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Religion categories.

In Invisible, Grace Ji-Sun Kim examines racism, sexism, and xenophobia as she works toward ending Asian American women's invisibility. She proclaims that the histories, experiences, and voices of Asian American women must be rescued from obscurity. Speaking with the weight of a theologian, she powerfully paves the way for a theology of visibility.

The Invisible Americans

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Author : Leandro V. Coronel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

The Invisible Americans written by Leandro V. Coronel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Filipino Americans categories.