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America’s Cross-Class Romance with Mare of Easttown
In the waning days of the great pandemic of 2020-2021, something surprising happened: the nation fell in love with Mare of Easttown, a depressing television series about a burned out town, an unsolved murder, and, as the Saturday Night Live … Continue reading
Posted in Class and the Media, Contributors, Issues, Kathy M. Newman
Tagged Black Lives Matter, Mare of Easttown, policing
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Black Homes Matter: The Fate of Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh
“I live here. I’m from here. My whole family is here. We try to stay close together. This is America. I’m a Marine, I went to war three times. I served my country. It feels crazy not to be able … Continue reading
Discourses of Power: Black Lives Matter and Adaptive Resilience
Over the past year, the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn renewed attention to racial inequality in the U.S. While a number of the incidents that have sparked the movement occurred in deindustrialized cities – Baltimore, Cleveland, and outside … Continue reading
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