Strangers in their own land : anger and mourning on the American right /

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2018.
Edition:[Paperback edition].
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26193340
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Preface; Part One The Great Paradox; 1 Traveling to the Heart; 2 "One Thing Good"; 3 The Rememberers; 4 The Candidates; 5 The "Least Resistant Personality"; Part Two The Social Terrain; 6 Industry: "The Buckle in America's Energy Belt"; 7 The State: Governing the Market 4,000 Feet Below; 8 The Pulpit and the Press: "The Topic Doesn't Come Up"; Part Three The Deep Story and the People in It; 9 The Deep Story; 10 The Team Player: Loyalty Above All; 11 The Worshipper: Invisible Renunciation; 12 The Cowboy: Stoicism; 13 The Rebel: A Team Loyalist with a New Cause; Part Four Going National
  • 14 The Fires of History: The 1860s and the 1960s15 Strangers No Longer: The Power of Promise; 16 "They Say There Are Beautiful Trees"; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; Acknowledgments; Appendix A: The Research; Appendix B: Politics and Pollution: National Discoveries from ToxMap; Appendix C: Fact-Checking Common Impressions; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; Reading Group Guide