Description
About the Author
Jennifer M. Silva is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. Her first book, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty, examined the transition to adulthood for working-class Millennials.
Reviews
We're Still Here is insightful, thoughtful and necessary... [it] combines sociological theory and intimate, personal research for a revealing look at the heartbreak in one of America's forgotten communities."- Foreword Reviews
Anyone interested in the lives and motivations of blue-collar workers and their participation in the electoral process should read this insightful work."-Library Journal, Starred Review
Silva demonstrates how the personal feeds into the political, how people project their frustrations * as well as their pain, disappointment, and angeronto political candidates and onto each other.Publisher's Weekly *
Silva's thoughtful, compelling study illustrates the complexities of work, race, and hope as the promise of the American Dream, for many, appears dim. * Booklist *
Silva's is an unforgiving book... But it's essential. It lays out one of the most fundamental cultural challenges of our time, and does so in a clear and thoughtful, if disturbing, way. * Inside Higher Ed *
As Silva reveals, many white residents (perhaps reluctantly) accepted an exchange of economic insecurity for the psychological comfort of white racial exceptionalism to deal with the changes. In fact, many whites interviewed for this book had constructed a working-class identity that rested primarily on their whiteness, leading one-time Democratic Party loyalists to support Donald Trump . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197582619
Author Jennifer M. Silva
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 239mm * 157mm * 15mm