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Rural poverty in the United States /

Rural poverty in the United States / [edited by] Ann Tickamyer, Jennifer Sherman, Jennifer Warlick. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Geography and Demography of Rural America. -- Where is rural America and who lives there? / Kenneth M. Johnson -- Poverty in rural America then and now / Bruce Weber and Kathleen Miller -- Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty. -- Measures of poverty and implications for portraits of rural hardship / Leif Jensen and Danielle Ely -- How to explain poverty? / Ann R. Tickamyer and Emily J. Wornell -- Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places. -- Changing gender roles and rural poverty / Kristin Smith -- Case study : In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997) / Lisa R. Pruitt -- Racial inequalities and poverty in rural America / Mark H. Harvey -- Case study : engaging Black geographies, how racism continues to produce poverty within the Black Belt South / Roaslind P. Harris -- Immigration trends and immigrant poverty in rural America / Shannon M. Monnat and Raeven Faye Chandler -- Case study : immigration and new rural residents / J. Celeste Lay -- Community and Societal Institutions. -- Rural poverty and symbolic capital : a tale of two valleys / Jennifer Sherman -- Case study : symbolic capital and sources of division in "Golden Valley," California and "Paradise Valley," Washington / Jennifer Sherman -- The old versus the new economies and their impacts / Brian Thiede and Tim Slack -- Case study : buoyancy on the Bayou, Louisiana shrimpers face the rising tide of globalization / Jill Ann Harrison -- Food insecurity and housing insecurity / Alisha Coleman-Jensen and Barry Steffen -- Case study : food insecurity and hunger in the rural West / Sarah Whitley -- The environment and health / Danielle Christine Rhubart and Elyzabeth W. Engle -- Case study : the environment and health / Michael Hendryx -- Education and information / Catharine Biddle and Ian Mette -- Case study : education, economic disadvantage, and homeless students in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Gas Region / Kai A. Schafft -- Crime, punishment, and spatial inequality / John M. Eason, L. Ash Smith, Jason Greenberg, Richard D. Abel, and Corey Sparks -- Case study : violence against women in America's heartland / Walter S. DeKeseredy and Amanda Hall-Sanchez -- Programs, Policy, and Politics. -- The safety net in rural America / Jennifer Warlick -- The opportunities and limits of economic growth / Gary Paul Green -- Politics and policy : barriers and opportunities for rural peoples / Ann R. Tickamyer, Jennifer Sherman, and Jennifer Warlick.

9780231172226 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231172233 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2017002248


Rural poor--United States.
Poverty--United States.

HC110.P6 / R8925 2017

339.4/60973091734

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