Other America The Reality of White Working Class Views on Identity, Race and Immigration
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Biografisk notat
Harris Beider is Head of School of Social Sciences and Professor of Communities and Public Policy at Birmingham City University. Previously he was Professor of Community Cohesion at the Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations at Coventry University and Visiting Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York. Harris has published widely on race, racism and white working class. Kusminder Chahal is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University. His research interests include race and racism, lived experience, hate crime, victim support and service responses and community-based engagement and research. He is an established equality and diversity practitioner and is currently leading on the Birmingham 2029 project - BCUs community-university engagement programme."This timely book offers a window into the fears and sense of dislocation of white, working class Americans, while still offering hope for creating new cross-racial coalitions."
Susan J. Popkin, Urban Institute
This book will fill a significant gap on the themes of white working class studies, race, immigration and public policy by providing the first substantial account of white working class views on key issues in American society.
• A topical book on the US which fits with our North American strategy
• The author has support and funding to do a major research project conducting interviews across five US cities
• He has chosen to work with us again despite pressure to go with a US university press (hence his mention of UCP in the proposal)
• The book will be written in an accessible style and with the aim of appealing to a wide audience