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Worlds apart : why poverty persists in rural America / Cynthia M. Duncan; with a foreward by Robert Coles

Duncan, Cynthia M. ; Coles, Robert

New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1999

Online Ressource (xvii, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: Worlds apart

0-585-35572-X (electronic bk.); 978-0-585-35572-6 ( : electronic bk.); 978-0-300-14782-7 ( : electronic bk.); 0-300-14782-1 (electronic bk.)

0-300-07628-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-300-08456-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 47011306     

OCoLC: 47011306 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HC110.P6

305.5690973 ; 305.569/0973     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC045000 ; bisacsh: SOC000000 ; bisacsh: SOC 045000

LOC-SH: Poverty -- United States ; Rural poor -- Interviews -- United States ; United States -- Rural conditions ; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- United States ; Rural poor -- United States -- Interviews ; Poverty -- United States ; United States -- Rural conditions ; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- ; United States -- Rural conditions ; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- ; Rural poor -- United States -- Interviews ; Poverty -- United States ; Electronic books

Electronic books / Interviews ; United States ; Poverty ; Rural conditions ; Rural poor ; Social conditions ; Armoede ; Platteland ; Gemeenschap (sociologie) ; Business & Economics ; Economic History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Interviews ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Poverty & Homelessness

Blackwell: rigid classes and corrupt politics in Appalachia's coal fields -- Dahlia: racial segregation and the planter control in the Mississippi Delta -- Gray Mountain: equality and civic involvement in northern New England -- Social change and social policy.

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The author "examines the nature of poverty in Blackwell in Appalachia and in the Mississippi Delta town of Dahlia" and contrasts them to New England's Gray Mountain's "rich civic culture that enables the poor to escape poverty."--Jacket