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Midland : reports from flyover country / Michael Croley and Jack Shuler, eds.

"A collection of revelatory stories from leading journalists between the coasts, offering a perspective on immigration, drug addiction, climate change, and more that you won't find in the national media"--

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Croley, Michael (Editor), Shuler, Jack (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Tiller Press, 2020.
Edition:Reports from flyover country.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > 2017-2021 > Public opinion.
Middle West > Description and travel.
Middle West > Politics and government > 21st century > Case studies.
Right and left (Political science) > United States > 21st century.
Working class > Middle West > Attitudes.
Working class > Middle West > Social conditions > 21st century.
Middle West > Race relations > Anecdotes.
Middle West > Social conditions > Anecdotes.
United States > Rural conditions > 21st century.
Public opinion > United States.
Politics and government.
Politics and government > Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Race relations.
Right and left (Political science)
Rural conditions.
Social conditions.
Travel.
Working class > Attitudes.
Working class > Social conditions.
Middle West.
United States.
Anecdotes.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Down River / Mei-Ling Hopgood
  • The many, tangled American definitions of socialism / Peter Slevin
  • Searching for the other Midwestern swing voter (spoiler: she's Black and lives in Detroit) / Wendy S. Walters
  • The Iowa caucus: an obituary / Courtney Crowder
  • In praise of the rookie / Heather Sinclair Shaw
  • Compromised: a group of small town environmentalists wanted to stop a potentially toxic Costoco chicken plant. How did they end up fighting alongside anti-Muslim xenophobes? / Ted Genoways
  • Bodies on the line: protest, politics, and power on an Appalachian railroad / Sydney Boles
  • The young hands that feed us: an estimated 524,000 children work unimaginably long hours in America's grueling agricultural fields, and it's all perfectly legal / Karen Coates and Valeria Fernandez
  • In rural Colorado, undocumented immigrants defend themselves from encroaching immigration agents / Esther Honig
  • Dollar General hits a gold mine in rural America: in the poorest towns, where even Walmart failed, the little-box player is turning a profit / Mya Frazier
  • Fighting to breathe: East Chicago's struggle for clean air and soul / Brittany King
  • Fear: how the NRA sells guns in America today / Elliott Woods
  • Does Standing Rock live in your imagination? / Graham Lee Brewer
  • White working-class grievance and the Black Midwesterner / Tamara Winfrey-Harris
  • Race home / Fitale Wari
  • Can't we all just get along? A road trip with my Trump-loving cousin / Bryan Mealer
  • What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics / Sarah Menkedick
  • The coolest parents in Johnson County, Kansas / C.J. Janovy
  • The struggle of death, hope, and harm reduction in the Midwest / Zachary Siegel
  • Connecting in the Heartland / Paul DeMain
  • Where is Trump Country? / Oakley Fugate
  • Reporting for America / Maggie Messitt
  • All I could hear was sickness: coronavirus from inside a prison / Lamar L. Walker.

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