New landscapes of inequality
Subtitle: neoliberalism and the erosion of democracy in America
By: edited by Jane L. Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams.
Contributors: Collins, Jane Lou, 1954-; Di Leonardo, Micaela, 1949-; Williams, Brett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781934691014
Subjects: Welfare state -- United States; United States -- Social policy; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Description: "The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly growing array of markers of human misery: endemic warfare, natural disasters, global epidemics, climate change. Behind the dismal headlines are a series of closely connected, long-term political-economic processes, often glossed as the rise of neoliberal capitalism. This phenomenon rests on the presumption that capitalist trade "liberalization" will lead inevitably to market growth and optimal social ends. But so far the results have not been positive. Focusing on the United States, the contributors to this volume analyze how the globalization of newly untrammeled capitalism has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, how the retreat of the benevolent state and the rise of the punitive, imperial slate are related, how poorly privatized welfare institutions provide services, how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies are melding, and how recurrent moral panics misrepresent class, race, gendered, and sexual realities on the ground."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: New global and American landscapes of inequality / Micaela di Leonardo; title: Southern dominance in borrowed language : the regional origins of American neoliberalism / Nancy MacLean; title: State of panic / Roger N. Lancaster; title: The precipice of debt / Brett Williams; title: Integration and the collapse of Black social capital : nostalgia and narrative in the neoliberal city / Michelle R. Boyd; title: Discipline and citizenship : Latina/o youth in Chicago JROTC programs / Gina M. Pérez; title: The specter of slavery : workfare and the economic citizenship of poor women / Jane L. Collins; title: The racial geography of state child protection / Dorothy Roberts; title: Withered memories : naming and fighting environmental racism in Georgia / Melissa Checker; title: The neoliberalization of minds, space, and bodies : rising global inequality and the shifting American public sphere / Micaela di Leonardo; title: The neoliberalization of compassion : Darfur and the mediation of American faith, fear, and terror / Amal Hassan Fadlalla.