White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

By: Barber, William J.

When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J. Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions, Barber--now a leading advocate for the rights of our nation's poor and the "closest person we have to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324094877
• ISBN13: 9781324094876
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"