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SUMMARY:August Book Club - Friday: White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our August book club meeting on Friday 15th\, at 12:30pm. \nAuthor: Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove  \nFrom GoodReads: \nWhen most Americans think of poverty\, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager\, Reverend William J. Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty\, then as now\, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions\, Barber—now a leading advocate for the rights of our nation’s poor and the “closest person we have to Dr. King” (Cornel West)—addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together the tens of millions working-class and impoverished whites with low-income Blacks. Recognizing that angry social media posts have replaced food\, education\, and housing as a “salve” for the white poor\, Barber contends that the millions of America’s lowest-income earners have much in common\, and together with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove\, provides one of the most sympathetic and visionary approaches to endemic poverty in decades.
URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/august-book-club-friday-white-poverty-how-exposing-myths-about-race-and-class-can-reconstruct-american-democracy/
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