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Prof. Robert Baskerville's SOC: White America

This guide is used in supplement with Prof. Baskerville's Soc class for Fall 2017 in order to augment materials and learning objectives.

Question: Have long-term changes in the quality of life of white Americans contributed to expressions of social unrest?

Health

The Early Deaths of Appalachians

Kentucky Is Home to the Greatest Declines in Life Expectancy

Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair

Why Are So Many Americans Dying Young

Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife Among White and Non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century

Widening Disparities In Infant Mortality And Life Expectancy Between Appalachia And The Rest Of The United States, 1990–2013

Socioeconomic Changes

Where Are All the Workers?

The Missing Men

All Hollowed Out: The Lonely Poverty of America’s White Working Class

What happened to the White Working Class?

The American Middle Class is Losing Ground

Good Jobs Are Back, College Graduates Are First In Line

"If White America Is In 'Crisis,’ What Have Black Americans Been Living Through?"

Poverty

Rural Poverty & Well-being, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Services

How Does Geography Relate to Poverty

Where White America Lives

How The Geography of U.S. Poverty Has Shifted Since the 1960s, Pew Research Center

50 Years of US Poverty, Richard Morrill

The Changing Geography of US Poverty, Elizabeth Kneebone, Brookings Institution

The Suburbanization of American Poverty

Videos

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

Poverty Rates Surge in American Suburbs

Strangers in their own Land

The decline of the white working class: Featuring J. D. Vance and Charles Murray | LIVE STREAM

Books

The Unwinding: The Inner History of the New America, George Packer

Strangers in Their own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

HillBilly Elegy: A Memior of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics, John B. Judis

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold Story of Class in America