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Rural poor -- United States.
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Poverty -- United States.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (xiv, 476 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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text file PDF rda |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. Geography and Demography of Rural America -- 1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There? -- 2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now -- PART II. Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty -- 3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship -- 4. How to Explain Poverty? -- PART III. Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places -- 5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty -- Case Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997) -- 6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America -- Case Study: Engaging Black Geographies--How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South -- 7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America -- Case Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents -- PART IV. Community and Societal Institutions -- 8 Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital -- Case Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in "Golden Valley," California, and "Paradise Valley," Washington -- 9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts -- Case Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou--Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization -- 10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity -- Case Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West -- 11. The Environment and Health -- Case Study: The Environment and Health -- 12. Education and Information -- Case Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Gas Region -- 13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality -- Case Study: Violence Against Women in America's Heartland -- PART V. Programs, Policy, and Politics -- 14. The Safety Net in Rural America -- 15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth -- 16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX. |
| Note |
In English. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Tickamyer, Ann R.,
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Sherman, Jennifer,
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Warlick, Jennifer L.,
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| ISBN |
0231544715 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231544719 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231172233 |
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9780231172226 |
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0231172222 |
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0231172230 |
| Standard # |
10.7312/tick17222 doi |
| Standard no. |
40027410118 |
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