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Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis

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Urban poverty, in conjunction with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in recent The us. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is referred to now for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis’s predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city products and services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who seek for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who continuously take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the inconceivable task of protecting their children on this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and recent photographs showing how the city has changed through the years, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.
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