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Автор: Schryer StephenНазвание: Maximum Feasible Participation: American Literature and the War on PovertyISBN: 9781503603677Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)Классификация:
ISBN-10: 1503603679
Обложка/Формат: HardbackСтраницы: 256 Вес: 0.54 кг. Дата издания: 05.06.2018Серия: Post*45 Язык: English Размер: 235 x 159 x 24 Ключевые слова: Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Подзаголовок: American literature and the war on povertyРейтинг: Поставляется из: Англии Описание: This book traces American writers contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged maximum feasible participation by the poor. With this phrase, the Johnson administration provided its imprimatur for an emerging model of professionalism that sought to eradicate boundaries between professionals and their clients—a model that appealed to writers, especially African Americans and Chicanos/as associated with the cultural nationalisms gaining traction in the inner cities. These writers privileged artistic process over product, rejecting conventions that separated writers from their audiences. Participatory professionalism, however, drew on a social scientific conception of poverty that proved to be the paradigms undoing: the culture of poverty thesis popularized by Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Daniel Moynihan. For writers and policy experts associated with the War on Poverty, this thesis described the cultural gap that they hoped to close. Instead, it eventually led to the dismantling of the welfare state. Ranging from the 1950s to the present, the book explores how writers like Jack Kerouac, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Alice Walker, Philip Roth, and others exposed the War on Povertys contradictions during its heyday and kept its legacy alive in the decades that followed. Дополнительное описание: Introduction: Maximum Feasible Participation |
| Автор: Schryer Frans J.
Название: They Never Come Back: A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico
ISBN: 0801453143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801453144
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience has changed significantly over the past two decades. In They Never Come Back, Frans J. Schryer draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation on the lives of migrants. When handicraft production was able to provide a viable alternative to agricultural labor, most migrants would travel to other parts of Mexico to sell their wares. Others opted to work for wages in the United States, returning to Mexico on a regular basis.This is no longer the case. At first almost everyone, including former craft vendors, headed north; however it also became more difficult to go back home and then reenter the United States. One migrant quoted by Schryer laments, "Before I was an artisan and free to travel all over Mexico to sell my crafts. Here we are all locked in a box and cannot get out." NAFTA, migrant labor legislation, and more stringent border controls have all affected migrants' home communities, their relations with employers, their livelihoods, and their identity and customs.Schryer traces the personal lives and careers of indigenous men and women on both sides of the border. He finds that the most pressing issue facing undocumented workers is not that they are unable to earn enough money but, rather, that they are living in a state of ongoing uncertainty and will never be able to achieve their full potential. Through these stories, Schryer offers a nuanced understanding of the predicaments undocumented workers face and the importance of the ongoing debate around immigration policy. |
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