Abandoned in the heartland [electronic resource] : work, family, and living in East St. Louis / Jennifer F. Hamer.
Hamer, Jennifer.
2011
HN80.E27 H37 2011eb
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Title Abandoned in the heartland [electronic resource] : work, family, and living in East St. Louis / Jennifer F. Hamer.
Author Hamer, Jennifer.
ISBN 9780520950177 (electronic book)
9780520269323
9780520269316
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 244 p.), [15] p. of plates : ill.
Call Number HN80.E27 H37 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.5/620977389
Summary "Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis's predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
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In America's heartland
East St. Louisans and their wheels
Work and meaning in a jobless city suburb
Hustling, clean and dirty
"Around here, women never get done workin"
"Gotta protect my own"
The cost of abandonment.

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