Does America Hate the Poor?: The Other American Dilemma Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s

by John E. Tropman

Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest society, do the poor seem so stigmatized. Tropman's answer is that they represent potential and actual fates that create anxiety within the dominant culture and within the actual poor themselves. The response in society is hatred of the poor, he contends, and among the poor themselves, self-hatred.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027596132X
• ISBN13: 9780275961329
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"