H. Luke Shaefer: The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of
Three of the nation’s top #scholars known for tackling key mysteries about #poverty in America turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places. Immersing themselves in #rural communities, pouring over centuries of local history, attending parades and festivals, the authors trace the legacies of the deepest poverty in America including #inequalities shaping people’s health, livelihoods, and upward social mobility for families. Wrung dry by powerful forces and #corrupt government officials, the “internal colonies” in these regions were exploited for their resources and then left to collapse. This history in America and its reverberations demand a reckoning and a commitment to wage a new War on Poverty, with the unrelenting focus on our nation’s places of deepest need.
Learning Objectives:
Learning about a five-year study of poverty across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep South, and South Texas.
Seeing data showing that America’s most #disadvantaged communities are not the big cities, but rather are rural.
Learning about a history of raw, intensive resource extraction and human #exploitation in the United States.
Presented by H. Luke Schaefer, Ph.D., Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Public Policy, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, @FordSchool Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, @UniversityofMichigan
Moderated by Reuben Miller, Associate Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice; Associated Faculty, Department of Sociology, @UChicago The University of Chicago; Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation