Dignity
seeking respect in back row America
by Unknown author · first published 2019
100% recommend
"Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and unforgettable true stories. Arnade's raw, deeply reported accounts cut through today's clickbait media headlines and indict the elitists who misunderstood poverty and addiction in America for decades. After
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…non sequitors or edge lord stuff might be in service of an implicit goal of his that most travelers don't share. Not that he does himself any favors with some of the framing. Highly recommend his book Dignity. https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/... Some of his work in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/chris-arnade
on “On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage” ↗…the fucked up version, even if it ever got fixed, which I think we can agree isn't likely the next decade at least? To learn about how the "permanent underclass" lives, You could do worse than reading "Dignity": https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/...
on “Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true” ↗…"blue states" have, quite deliberately, stopped building housing. This closes a traditional way out of rural poverty, and I think/speculate it's a major driver behind the opioid crisis. 2. The book "Dignity" by Chris Arnade documents the life of dirt poor America. I strongly recommend it. It talks a lot about how many people belong somewhere, and won't move because of that. https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/...
on “They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (2017)” ↗