The white face of American poverty
| | | | | | | | | | | The white face of American poverty In his new book, Barber attacks a “constellation of myths,” chiefly that American poverty has a Black face. | | | In his new book, “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy,” Barber attacks a “constellation of myths,” chiefly that American poverty has a Black face. Blending compassion and pragmatism, he argues that by one measure, the U.S. has 40 million more poor white people than poor Black people. It is scandalous, he says, that nearly half of Americans, Black and white, are poor or trapped in low wage jobs. Barber says this myth “obscures the poverty of tens of millions of white people. Until we face the reality of white poverty in America, we cannot comprehend what is truly exceptional about the inequality that persists in the richest nation in the history of the world.” -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31176): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31176 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107265692/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
