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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Geography and Demography of Rural America
1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There?
2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now
Part II: Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty
3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship
4. How to Explain Poverty?
Part III: Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places
5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty
Case Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997)
6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America
Case Study: Engaging Black Geographies— How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South
7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America
Case Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents
Part IV: Community and Societal Institutions
8. Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital: A Tale of Two Valleys
Case Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington
9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts
Case Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou— Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization
10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity
Case Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West
11. The Environment and Health
Case Study: The Environment and Health
12. Education and Information
Case Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region
13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality
Case Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland
Part V: Programs, Policy, and Politics
14. The Safety Net in Rural America
15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth
16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples
Contributors
Index
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