Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity - Navigating Insecurities in an American City

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Stephanie M. Baran is instructor at Nicholls State University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie M. Baran
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793608536
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-853-6
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Urban communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Cultural studies: food and society, Social discrimination and social justice, Urban communities / city life