What's the Matter with White People?: Finding Our Way in the Next America
Autor Joan Walshen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2013
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781476733128
ISBN-10: 1476733120
Pagini: 335
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Original.
Editura: Touchstone Books
ISBN-10: 1476733120
Pagini: 335
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Original.
Editura: Touchstone Books
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Joan Walsh
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One of America′s most popular online columnists asks "Which came first: the class war or the culture war?" "In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that fueled the greatest economic boom in history and made a reality of the American dream. Hers is the story of postwar America told through a working class New York Irish Catholic family whose political divisions mirrored the nation′s. Moving and powerful, her account will help people of all races think through how we can build a just and prosperous multiracial America."
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
One of America′s most popular online columnists asks "Which came first: the class war or the culture war?" "In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that fueled the greatest economic boom in history and made a reality of the American dream. Hers is the story of postwar America told through a working class New York Irish Catholic family whose political divisions mirrored the nation′s. Moving and powerful, her account will help people of all races think through how we can build a just and prosperous multiracial America."
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
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One of America′s most popular online columnists asks "Which came first: the class war or the culture war?" "In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that fueled the greatest economic boom in history and made a reality of the American dream. Hers is the story of postwar America told through a working class New York Irish Catholic family whose political divisions mirrored the nation′s. Moving and powerful, her account will help people of all races think through how we can build a just and prosperous multiracial America."
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Cuprins
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Part I Fact–Checking a Fractured Irish Fairy Tale 15
Part II Growing Up in Nixonland 61
Part III The Loneliness of the Reagan–Era Do–Gooder 117
Part IV Some of My Best Presidents Are Black 177
Part V What s the Matter with White People? 235
Acknowledgments 255
Index 261
Introduction 1
Part I Fact–Checking a Fractured Irish Fairy Tale 15
Part II Growing Up in Nixonland 61
Part III The Loneliness of the Reagan–Era Do–Gooder 117
Part IV Some of My Best Presidents Are Black 177
Part V What s the Matter with White People? 235
Acknowledgments 255
Index 261
Recenzii
"...thrilling and moving family and political memoir that will help those who read it decipher the political spectacle that will unfold over the next two months." (The San Francisco Chronicle, August 2012)