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All articles filed in sociology

ReviewsJune 15, 2018June 15, 2018

Review: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond, the academic behind the Eviction Lab, studies the housing crisis from within the home.

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PoliticsJune 2, 2018

New Post for 100 Days in Appalachia

Click here to read my post about the proposed budget cuts to adult education programming and why that sets a terrifying precedent for the next grant renewal cycles.

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PoliticsMay 14, 2018

Populism

Good country folk historically hate big business, cops, authority of any kind, and rich folks. What happened? Nothing, really.

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ReviewsApril 28, 2018April 28, 2018

Review: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Poverty is a state of emergency.

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I’m Rachel, a jaded twenty-something English grad student looking to tell some stories. Currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee, born and bred in rural Alabama. Here you’ll find liberal political tirades, stories, book reviews, and folklore focused in on these lower Southeastern thirteen states.

The title “Snake and Tree” comes from the Alabama proverb that if you hang a dead snake in a tree it’ll bring rain. These stories are the snake. The rain is making peace with this broke South.

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