Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity

Auteur

Stephanie M. Baran is instructor at Nicholls State University.

Texte du rabat

This book includes interviews and observations from benefit recipients and social-service agents based on a two-year ethnographic study of poverty and insecurity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The author has an honest conversation about the circumstances and institutions around poverty that affect people experiencing it in different ways.

Contenu

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Methodology

Introduction

Chapter 1"Let's go eat in the office": Life at a Milwaukee Food Pantry

Chapter 2Benefits: How Public Perceptions Hurt Recipient Access

Chapter 3Perceptions of Poverty

Chapter 4 Food Insecurity in an American City

Chapter 5Outside the pantry

Chapter 6What happens when a government 'fails' to act?

Chapter 7"I feel like a rat in a race": The Benefit Experience

Chapter 8Hunger Task Force: Your Free & Local Food Bank

Conclusion An Ode to My Time at Feed the Need

Bibliography

About the Author