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So Rich, So Poor: Why It's so Hard to End Poverty in America
Par Peter Edelman. 2013
&“A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field.&” —Kirkus Reviews Income disparities in our wealthy nation are…
wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today&’s economy has stultified wage growth for half of America&’s workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top. In this &“accessible and inspiring analysis&”, lifelong anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite important policy gains. He delves into what is happening to the people behind the statistics and takes a particular look at young people of color, for whom the possibility of productive lives is too often lost on the way to adulthood (Angela Glover Blackwell). For anyone who wants to understand one of the critical issues of twenty-first century America, So Rich, So Poor is &“engaging and informative&” (William Julius Wilson) and &“powerful and eloquent&” (Wade Henderson).Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Par Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn. 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions…
to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky &“shows how we can and must do better&” (Katie Couric)."A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an &“other America,&” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It&’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof&’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.Urban Social Housing: Global Health and Climate Change Mitigation and Redress
Par Patrick Wakely. 2024
This book proposes operational approaches to public sector support to community-led development of urban low-income group social housing in the…
prevailing and medium-term. Within the context of mitigating and redressing the existential threats of climate change and global pathogenic transmission, building on current concerns of global heating and the lessons learnt from the 2020-22 COVID-19 pandemic, the book closely examines recent examples from a wide international range of countries and cities from the Sri Lanka experience to Arab States of the Middle East and the Andes. Topics include maintenance and management of public sector housing, poverty alleviation objectives, climate change mitigation, housing density, local land management and planning, land rights, affordable housing markets, and international governance and administration, ultimately pointing to the universal need for institutional, organisational and human skills development and the compilation and dissemination of operationally successful examples of participatory partnerships for affordable social housing. The book will be of interest to researchers, instructors, practitioners, and students of urban development, housing, environmental design, land-use planning, public administration and environmental health engineering.I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here: Finding My Voice, Finding My People, Finding My Way
Par Jonathan Conyers. 2023
As seen on Humans of New York, Jonathan Conyers introduces us to the teachers, his debate coach, a homeless man, and…
a boy named Diego who changed his life. Booklist calls it &“a moving story about finding your supporters and building your future.&” Everybody was rooting for Jonathan Conyers after seeing his profile on Humans of New York went viral and sparked millions in donations to the Brooklyn Debate League. The kid who went from struggling to read to being a breakout star on his high school debate team, thanks to a life-changing friendship with his transgender debate coach, captured the heart of America. Jonathan&’s story highlights the important role teachers play in opening up worlds of opportunity for the most vulnerable students. In I Wasn&’t Supposed to Be Here, Jonathan shares the full story of his incredible journey escaping the precarious circumstances he was born into, and the teachers, mentors, and guides who helped him along the way. Born into a family crippled by addiction and homelessness, Jonathan &“failed&” kindergarten and was told he would never succeed academically. But instead, Jonathan found ways to defy the limited expectations placed upon him by building a village to save his own life, and realize his dream to get into medical school. Throughout this heartwarming memoir, we meet the unique and diverse cast of characters who made up Jonathan&’s village and helped him change the trajectory of his life.The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
Par Lisa M. Hamilton. 2023
A New York Times Book Review Editors&’ Choice | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year | Longlisted for the…
2024 Plutarch AwardIn the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, The Hungry Season is a &“lyrical&” narrative with "real suspense" (New York Times): a nonfiction drama that &“reads like the best of fiction&” (Mark Arax), tracing one woman&’s journey from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California as she struggles to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike. As combat rages across the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, a child is born. Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because she is part of the Hmong minority and because she is a daughter, not a son. When, at thirteen, she is promised in marriage to a man three times her age, it appears that Ia&’s future has been decided for her. But after brutal communist rule upends her life, this intrepid girl resolves to chart her own defiant path. With ceaseless ambition and an indestructible spirit, Ia builds a new existence for herself and, before long, for her children, first in the refugee camps of Thailand and then in the industrial heartland of California&’s San Joaquin Valley. At the root of her success is a simple act: growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories. While the booming business brings her newfound power, it also forces her to face her own past. In order to endure the present, Ia must confront all that she left behind, and somehow find a place in her heart for those who chose to leave her. Meticulously reported over seven years and written with the intimacy of a novel, The Hungry Season is the story of one radiant woman&’s quest for survival—and for the nourishment that matters most.Forced Out: Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope
Par Susan J. Terrio. 2024
Features the stories of undocumented mothers who reunite with their children in the US years after fleeing violence at homeFacing…
escalating chaos and violence in their home countries, many Central American mothers have found that a desperate flight to the north was their only choice. Many left their children behind in order to spare them the hardships of the journey. If they made it across the border without getting locked up or deported, they entered a country increasingly unwilling to recognize claims of asylum.This book features the stories of women who crossed the border without encountering immigration authorities, in some cases several times, and settled in the greater Washington, DC, area, living in the shadows for years. By centering on the voices of the women themselves, it offers an intimate look at what drove them from home and the challenges they face in reuniting years later with their children.Forced Out traces the women’s evolving attitudes toward the violence embedded in institutions and everyday life in their home countries, as well as their continued vulnerability and dependence in the US. It also highlights the challenges they face in parenting children adapting to American society and learning English while living with mothers who had left them years before and become strangers to them. Rather than sensationalizing their trauma or dwelling on their vulnerability, the stories reveal the women’s rich, complex inner lives, their resilience in overcoming senseless violence, and their unswerving commitment to bettering their children’s lives. Clear, vivid, and impactful, this is a humbling and humane look at the state of migration to America today.Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Par Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. 2024
Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This…
resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including what is now the city of Amman. Muslim refugee resettlement reinvigorated regional economies, but also intensified competition over land and, at times, precipitated sectarian tensions, setting in motion fundamental shifts in the borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration, and refugees and immigrants, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.to make monsters out of girls
Par Amanda Lovelace. 2018
Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Poetry, amanda lovelace presents her new illustrated duology, &“things that h(a)unt.&”…
In this first installment, to make monsters out of girls, lovelace explores the memory of being in an abusive relationship. She poses the eternal question: Can you heal once you&’ve been marked by a monster, or will the sun always sting?A raiva é uma emoção humana natural que todos nós experimentamos de tempos em tempos. Ela pode ser desencadeada por…
uma variedade de fatores, como frustração, medo, decepção ou percepção de injustiça. Embora certo nível de raiva seja normal e saudável, quando ela se torna excessiva ou incontrolável, pode ter consequências negativas para nossa saúde mental e física, bem como para nossos relacionamentos e nossa qualidade de vida em geral. O livro “Controle da Raiva” é um guia abrangente que visa ajudar os leitores a entender a natureza da raiva, suas causas subjacentes e estratégias eficazes para gerenciá-la de forma construtiva e saudável. Escrito por especialistas em psicologia e bem-estar emocional, esse livro fornece dicas e ferramentas práticas para gerenciar a raiva e evitar que ela se torne avassaladora. O livro começa explorando as várias formas de raiva, incluindo o comportamento passivo-agressivo, a raiva reprimida e os surtos explosivos. Em seguida, ele se aprofunda nos processos psicológicos e fisiológicos subjacentes à raiva, ajudando os leitores a reconhecer seus próprios gatilhos e padrões de comportamento. O núcleo do livro é dedicado a fornecer técnicas e exercícios práticos para o controle da raiva, incluindo técnicas de relaxamento e atenção plena, reestruturação cognitiva e habilidades de comunicação. Os autores enfatizam a importância da autoconsciência, da empatia e da assertividade no controle eficaz da raiva. Ao longo do livro, os leitores são incentivados a refletir sobre suas próprias experiências com a raiva e a desenvolver um plano personalizado para gerenciar suas emoções de forma saudável e sustentável. Com seus conselhos práticos e técnicas baseadas em evidências, “Controle da raiva” é um recurso essencial para qualquer pessoa que queira obter controle sobre sua raiva e melhorar seu bem-estar emocional.Homelessness & Health in Canada (Health and Society)
Par Manal Guirguis-Younger, Ryan McNeil, Stephen W. Hwang. 2013
Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health…
of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis. This book is divided into three distinct but complimentary sections. In the first section, contributors explore how homelessness affects the health of particular homeless populations, focusing on the experiences of homeless youth, immigrants, refugees and people of Aboriginal ancestry. In the second section, contributors investigate how housing and public health policy as well as programmatic responses can address various health challenges, including severe mental illness and HIV/AIDS. In the final section, contributors highlight innovative Canadian interventions that have shown great promise in the field. Together, they form a comprehensive survey of an all too important topic and serve as a blueprint for action.Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark (Alternative Perspectives in Criminology)
Par Stacey Hannem & Chris Bruckert. 2012
Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark is a collection of qualitative, empirical studies of populations who experience stigma. Discrimination, marginality…
and social injustice are recognized as indelibly tied to the phenomena of stigma. This volume builds on the work of Erving Goffman and integrates a larger, structural understanding of stigma based in Michel Foucault’s governmentality writings. Contemporary notions of risk, riskiness and danger are linked to the labelling of “deviant” populations in the name of social control and risk management; these labels result in the institutional and systemic perpetuation of stereotypes and stigmatic attitudes. The research presented in this book addresses the individual experience of symbolic stigma as well as the collective impact of structural stigma. With unique, personal vignettes that position each of the academic contributors in relation to their subjects, this collection of essays challenges social science researchers to understand their own role in reproducing and contesting hegemonic discourses that stigmatize and marginalize.Le Piège de la violence et les jeunes (Perspectives alternatives en criminologie)
Par Jacques Laplante. 2008
La violence a multiples faces, toutes celles qu'on lui donne selon les soucis de l'heure et les jeunes font toujours…
partie de ces soucis. Le piège de la violence dans lequel le jeune peut tomber ne dépend pas uniquement de son agir, mais relève de la façon dont on appréhende cet agir en termes de violence. Ce piège ne dépend pas non plus uniquement de ce qu'est le jeune; il relève souvent de la manière dont on se saisit de sa personne pour en préciser le profil délinquant. Dans ce processus qui conduit souvent au pénal, le piège se referme sur le jeune et peut le détruire complètement. L'ouvrage examine comment cette violence particulière capable de détruire le jeune s'infiltre socialement. Cette violence n'a pas sa source dans quelque intervention extraordinaire de l'autorité étatique, mais bien dans un quotidien plus ou moins banal où rationalisations, peurs, intérêts, idéologies reconduisent les structures en place. La violence des jeunes prend la figure de l'institution qui la combat.El abuso verbal en las relaciones: Como reconocerlo y como responder
Par Patricia Evans. 2017
En esta tercera edicion totalmente ampliada y actualizada del clasico exito de ventas, conoceras por que el abuso verbal esta…
mas extendido que nunca y como puedes lidiar con el. Tendras mas respuestas para reconocer el abuso cuando sucede, para responder a los abusadores de forma segura y adecuada, y lo que es mas importante, llevar una vida mas sana y mas feliz. En dos capitulos totalmente nuevos, Evans revela las situaciones de estres exterior que conducen al aumento del abuso verbal, y te muestra como puedes mitigar sus efectos devastadores en tus relaciones. Evans tambien resume los niveles de abuso que caracterizan este tipo de comportamiento, desde sutiles e insidiosas humillaciones que pueden erosionar tu autoestima hasta las rabietas con insultos, gritos y amenazas que pueden derivar en abuso fisico. A partir de cientos de situaciones reales sufridas por personas reales como tu, Evans ofrece estrategias, ejemplos de situaciones y planes de accion disenados para ayudarte a lidiar con el abuso y con el abusador. Esta nueva edicion oportuna de El abuso verbal en las relaciones te permitira reconocer y responder al abuso verbal, un paso crucial a la vez.The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Par Jake Bittle. 2023
Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence &“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.&” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer…
Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don&’t realize is that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here in the United States. In communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes.A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is &“a vivid tour of the new human geography just coming into view&” (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth). From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched California, from the dried-up cotton fields of Arizona to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last few decades, the federal government has moved tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Insurance and mortgage markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing people out of risky areas. Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest migration in our country&’s history. The Great Displacement compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives—erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States.Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion: Promoting Social Justice in Social Work
Par John H. Pierson. 2024
In highly unequal Britain, poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social…
care services. At the same time, years of austerity combined with welfare reform have changed the context in which services are delivered in a society roiled by Brexit, Covid, Black Lives Matter and women rallying under the banner, “Me‑too”.This fourth edition lays out the ways and means for practitioners to tackle the deprivation and destitution of service users. Fully revised and expanded, it introduces new material that tracks changes and developments in policy and practice. Statutes, benefit rules and relevant research are discussed as part of the necessary knowledge base for practitioners. Greater attention than in previous editions is paid to: local authority commissioning, the impact of social media on the mental health of young people, substandard housing and working with transgender youth.Preparing practitioners to engage directly with the social and personal circumstances facing excluded individuals and their families, this book explains the development of the concept of social exclusion as a framework for understanding the impact of poverty and other deprivations in users’ lives, and locates that framework within social work values of social justice while acknowledging the many challenges to those values. The focus is on practice throughout with boxed extracts from key policies and guidelines along with questions for readers to ponder through up‑to‑date examples, activities and exercises in each chapter. Case studies from public, private and voluntary sectors are drawn from across the United Kingdom, to illuminate the way forward for poverty‑aware social work.Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion will be required reading for all BA and MA social work degrees across the United Kingdom.Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School
Par Tiffany Jewell. 2024
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid, Tiffany Jewell, this…
YA nonfiction book, highlighting inequities Black and Brown students face from preschool through college, is the most important, empowering read this year.From preschool to higher education and everything in between, Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School focuses on the experiences Black and Brown students face as a direct result of the racism built into schools across the United States.The overarching nonfiction narrative follows author Tiffany Jewell from early elementary school through her time at college, unpacking the history of systemic racism in the American educational system along the way. Throughout the book, other writers of the global majority share a wide variety of personal narratives and stories based on their own school experiences.Contributors include New York Times bestseller Joanna Ho; award winners Minh Lê, Randy Ribay, and Torrey Maldonado; authors James Bird and Rebekah Borucki; author-educators Amelia A. Sherwood, Roberto Germán, Liz Kleinrock, Gary R. Gray Jr., Lorena Germán, Patrick Harris II, shea wesley martin, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Ozy Aloziem, Gayatri Sethi, and Dulce-Marie Flecha; and even a couple of teen writers!Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School provides young folks with the context to think critically about and chart their own course through their current schooling—and any future schooling they may pursue.Girl Unbroken: A Sister's Harrowing Story of Survival from The Streets of Long Island to the Farms of Idaho
Par Regina Calcaterra, Rosie Maloney. 2016
In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest…
sister Rosie to tell Rosie’s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives “like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path.” But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker, she is separated from her younger siblings Norman and Rosie. And as Rosie discovers after Cookie kidnaps her from foster care, the one thing worse than being abandoned by her mother is living in Cookie’s presence. Beaten physically, abused emotionally, and forced to labor at the farm where Cookie settles in Idaho, Rosie refuses to give in. Like her sister Regina, Rosie has an unfathomable strength in the face of unimaginable hardship—enough to propel her out of Idaho and out of a nightmare.Filled with maturity and grace, Rosie’s memoir continues the compelling story begun in Etched in Sand—a shocking yet profoundly moving testament to sisterhood and indomitable courage.The Bantu-Speaking Peoples of Southern Africa (Routledge Revivals)
Par W. D. Hammond-Tooke. 1974
First published in 1974, The Bantu-Speaking Peoples of Southern Africa is a revised and rewritten version of I. Schapera’s ethnographical…
survey of the Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa. New South African contributors place on record all the known facts of the physical characteristics and traditional cultures of these peoples, as well as documenting the important social, cultural and economic changes that have occurred since the coming of the white man. This book will be of interest to students of anthropology, sociology, African studies, and history.Please Don't Take Mummy Away: The true story of two sisters left cold, frightened, hungry and alone
Par Maggie Hartley. 2024
'Mummy! Where did you go? Please come back, Mummy.'Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, a new powerful true story from…
bestseller Maggie Hartley, foster carer for over 20 years.When police are called to a local supermarket late one evening, they find an angry shopkeeper and a silent young woman. It's the third time 24-year-old Zoe has been caught stealing in the past few days. Eyes filled with panic, Zoe has been hiding bread, milk, Calpol and nappies under her coat. As police officers break down the door of Zoe's flat they find seven-year-old Coco and two-year-old Lola, home alone, huddled on the floor in a freezing cold bedroom, crying out for their mummy.When Social Services are called in, the girls are taken into care and are soon tucked up safely in bed at Maggie's house. It looks like a simple case of neglect, but things aren't always what they seem and, with Maggie's help, can Zoe convince Social Services that love is enough to be a good mum?Readers LOVE Maggie Hartley:'Was gripped the whole way through''Could not put it down''I enjoyed every minute'Slum Boy: A Portrait
Par Juano Diaz. 2024
One of the most moving accounts of non fiction ever written according to the Guardian 'This is a heart-breaking story,…
beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers' - Andrew O'Hagan'What a brave and powerful story. If you like Shuggie Bain and Damian Barr then Slumboy is for you' - Lemn Sissay'Compulsively readable, it's Dickensian in its rich cast of Glaswegian characters' - Patrick GaleJohn MacDonald must find his mother. Born into the slums of Glasgow in the late '70s, a 4-year-old John's life is filled with the debris of alcoholism and poverty. Soon after witnessing a drowning, his mother's addictions take over their lives, leaving him starving in their flat, awaiting her return.A concerned neighbor reports her, and he is forcibly taken away from his mother and placed into the care system. There, he dreams of being reunited with her. His mind is consumed with images and memories he can't process or understand, which his eventual adoptive parents silence out of fear as he grows into a young man within a strict Catholic and Romany Gypsy community.This memoir is about how John found his way to his true identity, Juano Diaz, and how, against all odds, his unstoppable love for his mother sets him free.