{"product_id":"the-injustice-of-place-uncovering-the-legacy-of-poverty-in-america-isbn-9780063239494","title":"The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003e$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America’s most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural, revealing a hidden landscape of American rural poverty. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep South, and South Texas. Immersing themselves in these communities, poring over centuries of local history, attending parades and festivals, the authors trace the legacies of the deepest poverty in America—including inequalities shaping people’s health, livelihoods, and upward social mobility for families. Wrung dry by powerful forces and entrenched government corruption, the “internal colonies” in these regions were exploited for their resources and then left to collapse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unfolding revelation in \u003ci\u003eThe Injustice of Place\u003c\/i\u003e is not about what sets these places apart, but about what they have in common—a history of raw, intensive resource extraction and human exploitation. This history and its reverberations demand a reckoning with American public policy and a commitment to wage a new War on Poverty, with the unrelenting focus on our nation’s places of deepest need.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark work of data-driven social science reveals the powerful forces that create injustice in place:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Geography of Disadvantage:\u003c\/b\u003e Go beyond the headlines about urban crises to discover why the most disadvantaged communities in America are overwhelmingly rural, from Appalachia to the Deep South.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHistorical Roots of Inequality:\u003c\/b\u003e Trace how a history of intensive resource extraction and human exploitation created \"internal colonies\" that continue to shape the health, wealth, and futures of families today.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBarriers to Social Mobility:\u003c\/b\u003e Understand through a data-driven analysis how local economies, systemic racism, and government corruption conspire to limit opportunities for generations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Call for a New War on Poverty:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore a powerful closing argument for a renewed commitment to public policy focused on our nation’s places of deepest need.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Three of the nation’s top poverty scholars deliver a profound inquiry into the most disadvantaged communities in America. Combining historical and statistical analysis with on-the-ground interviewing, the authors present novel and provocative arguments for many social ills that plague these regions. \u003cstrong\u003eThis book challenges and enrages, humbles and indicts—and forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.”\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted and Poverty, by America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Captivating and insightful, \u003cem\u003eThe Injustice of Place\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on how the places in which we live shape so many aspects of our lives -- from our jobs to our health to our children's prospects. By interweaving big data with on-the-ground ethnography and historical analysis, the authors exemplify the best of social science today, and will surely help frame policy discussions in the years to come.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaj Chetty, Harvard University, recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal recognizing the economist under forty whose work has made the most significant contribution to the field\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Woven with vivid, first-hand accounts and bolstered by fresh data,\u003cem\u003e Injustice of Place\u003c\/em\u003e convincingly knots present-day disadvantage to the long tail of racism and extractive capitalism. This book delivers new insights into solving today’s most intractable injustices.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMona Hanna-Attisha, Flint, MI, pediatrician and author of What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is no book on poverty in America quite like this one. Original reporting and rigorous data analysis reveal a living history of injustice maintained through corruption, resource extraction, and violence; but the book doesn’t leave us there. We meet everyday people who, even in the face of backlash from the economic and political elite, try to bring about change. Incisive, surprising, enraging, and hopeful, \u003cem\u003eThe Injustice of Place\u003c\/em\u003e is the book on poverty we’ve needed all along.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReuben Jonathan Miller, 2022 MacArthur Fellow and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An innovative study of American poverty.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful, alarming portrayal of how poverty remains entrenched in unfairly forgotten places across America.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Eye-opening… One of the most thoroughly researched portraits to date of poverty in often forgotten and neglected areas of the United States.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This eye-opening account provides a powerful lens with which to view contemporary inequality in America.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Every few years, an academic work arrives that transcends genre, combining unparalleled research skills with engaging storytelling. \u003cem\u003eThe Injustice of Place\u003c\/em\u003e… harnesses the most powerful aspects of big data while diving into historic narratives that continue to inform and instruct.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890453475557,"sku":"NP9780063239494","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063239494.jpg?v=1730233315","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-injustice-of-place-uncovering-the-legacy-of-poverty-in-america-isbn-9780063239494","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}