What's the Matter with White People?: Finding Our Way in the Next America - Couverture souple

Walsh, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1476733120 ISBN 13 : 9781476733128

Editeur : Touchstone, 2013

Synopsis

A CLEAR-EYED, COGENT CLARION CALL FOR ENDING THE DIVISIVE CLASS WARS THAT THREATEN THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS DREAM

In What’s the Matter with White People? Walsh argues that the biggest divide in America today is based not on party or ideology but on two competing explanations for why middle-class stability has been shaken since the 1970s. One side sees an America that has spent the last forty years bankrupting the country by providing benefits for the underachieving, the immoral, and the undeserving—no matter the cost to the majority of Americans. The other side sees an America that has spent the last forty years catering to the wealthy while allowing only a nominal measure of progress for the downtrodden.

Using her extended Irish-Catholic working-class family as a case in point and explaining her own political coming-of-age, Walsh shows how liberals unwittingly collaborated in the “us versus them” narrative and how the GOP’s renewed culture war now scapegoats segments of its own white demographic.

Part memoir, part political history, What’s the Matter with White People? is essential reading to combat political and cultural polarization and to build a more just and prosperous multiracial America in the years to come.

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD

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À propos de l'auteur

Joan Walsh is editor-at-large of Salon and an MSNBC political analyst. A New York native, she attended the University of Wisconsin, and now lives in New York City and San Francisco, CA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Touchstone
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1476733120
• ISBN 13: 9781476733128
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 351
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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