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We're Still Here
Book • 2019
In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva presents a deep, multi-generational story of pain, place, and politics in a declining coal town in Pennsylvania.
Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents, Silva explores how the decline of the American Dream is experienced through addiction, joblessness, family disruption, violence, and trauma.
The book challenges simple partisan explanations by uncovering the complex relationships, loyalties, and moral visions that shape working-class political disengagement and identity.
It provides powerful evidence of the remaking of working-class politics and identity in contemporary America.
Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents, Silva explores how the decline of the American Dream is experienced through addiction, joblessness, family disruption, violence, and trauma.
The book challenges simple partisan explanations by uncovering the complex relationships, loyalties, and moral visions that shape working-class political disengagement and identity.
It provides powerful evidence of the remaking of working-class politics and identity in contemporary America.
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