Strangers in their own land anger and mourning on the American right
"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country--a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of...
| Main Author: | Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The New Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- Part one: The great paradox
- Traveling to the heart
- "One thing good"
- The rememberers
- The candidates
- The "least resistant personality"
- Part two: The social terrain
- Industry: "the buckle in America's energy belt"
- The state: governing the market 4,000 feet below
- The pulpit and the press: "the topic doesn't come up
- Part three: The deep story and the people in it
- The deep story
- The team player: loyalty above all
- The worshipper: invisible renunciation
- The cowboy: stoicism
- The rebel: a team loyalist with a new cause
- Part four: Going national
- The fires of history: the 1860s and the 1960s
- Strangers no longer: the power of promise
- "They say there are beautiful trees."