American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion
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Featuring contributions from an anonymous delivery driver, Steve Almond, Kristin Collier, Lacy M. Johnson, Kiese Laymon, Valeria Luiselli, Lauren Markham, Alice Paige, Angela Pelster, Sarith Peou, Michael Torres, Inara Verzemnieks, T.M. "Redd" Warren, and Kao Kalia Yang, with a foreword by Zeke Caligiuri and an introduction by Eula Biss.
"This is a volume edited by the imprisoned, because the history of class has always been written by the powerful."
Fifteen essays, coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, take a sharp look at the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States. Featuring accounts that include gig work as a delivery driver, homelessness among trans youth, and life with immense student loan debt, in addition to transcripts of insightful discussions between the editors, American Precariat demonstrates how various and often invisible extreme instability can be. With the understanding that widespread recognition of collective precarity is an urgent concern, the anthology situates each individual portrait within societal structures of exclusion, scarcity, and criminality.
These essays write through the silence around class to enumerate the risks that our material conditions leave us no choice but to take. A rendering of the present moment told from below, American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division. In doing so, it offers healing for some of the world's fractures.
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