Rural Poverty in the United States

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

PART I Geography and Demography of Rural America

1 Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There?

Kenneth M. Johnson

2 Poverty in Rural America Then and Now

Bruce Weber and Kathleen Miller

PART II Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty

3 Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship

Leif Jensen and Danielle Ely

4 How to Explain Poverty?

Ann R. Tickamyer and Emily J. Wornell

PART III Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places

5 Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty

Kristin Smith

Case Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997)

Lisa R. Pruitt

6 Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America

Mark H. Harvey

Case Study: Engaging Black Geographies— How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South

Rosalind P. Harris

7 Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America

Shannon M. Monnat and Raeven Faye Chandler

Case Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents

J. Celeste Lay

PART IV Community and Societal Institutions

8 Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital: A Tale of Two Valleys

Jennifer Sherman

Case Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington

Jennifer Sherman

9 The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts

Brian Thiede and Tim Slack

Case Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou— Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization

Jill Ann Harrison

10 Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity

Alisha Coleman-Jensen and Barry Steffen

Case Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West

Sarah Whitley

11 The Environment and Health

Danielle Christine Rhubart and Elyzabeth W. Engle

Case Study: The Environment and Health

Michael Hendryx

12 Education and Information

Catharine Biddle and Ian Mette

Case Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region

Kai A. Schafft

13 Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality

John M. Eason, L. Ash Smith, Jason Greenberg, Richard D. Abel, and Corey Sparks

Case Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland

Walter S. DeKeseredy and Amanda Hall-Sanchez

PART V Programs, Policy, and Politics

14 The Safety Net in Rural America

Jennifer Warlick

15 The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth

Gary Paul Green

16 Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples

Ann R. Tickamyer, Jennifer Sherman, and Jennifer Warlick