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Celine-Marie Pascale. Living on the Edge
Contents
Guide
Pages
Living on the Edge. When Hard Times Become a Way of Life
Copyright page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Notes
1 The Lay of the Land
The Struggling Class
Framework 1: Work – Unemployment and Underemployment
Framework 2: Housing – Fair Market Rent vs Affordable Housing
Framework 3: Poverty – The Federal Poverty Line vs Self-sufficiency Budget
Notes
2 The Struggling Class
Appalachia
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
Oakland, California
Life as a Flashing Yellow Light
Notes
3 A Hazardous Life: The High Price of Being Poor
Payday Loans
High-Interest Loans
The Devil’s Bargain: Health Care
The High Price of Being Poor
Notes
4 Sacrifice Zones: The Places We Call Home
Lead Contamination in Oakland, California
Extractive Industries
Wind River Reservation
Northern Appalachia
Central Appalachia
Standing Rock Reservation
Sacrifice Zones
Notes
5 Ordinary Things That Can Only Happen Here
Things Can Happen
More Than Needles on a Sidewalk
When Danger Becomes Ordinary
Notes
6 The Burdens of Prejudice: Class and Race
Is Classism a Thing?
The Faces of Racism
A Twisted Logic
Daily Doses of Arsenic
The Violence of Hate
Lives of Meaning and Consequence
Notes
7 The Burdens Women Face
Challenging Assault
Sex Trafficking
A National Crisis
Notes
8 The Face of a Movement?
Who are the Trumpsters?
A Looming Civil War
The Past Won’t Stay Behind Us
Notes
9 Talking About Class
Historical Fictions and Half-Truths
Meritocracy and the American Dream
Free Market Capitalism
Taking Care of Business
What Next?
Notes
10 And Then, the Pandemic…
When Challenges Turn to Crises
Connecting the Dots
Bearing the Weight
Notes
11 The Future We Want
Power Surrenders Nothing4
Talking About Leadership
Imagining the Future We Want
The Last Two Cents
The Broad Strokes of Hope
Reckoning and Repair
Notes
Appendix A: Methods, Methodology, and Theory. Methods
Methodology
The Precariat
Notes
Appendix B: Table of Interviewees
Index
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“Dr. Pascale writes with clarity, purpose, and a studied, personal understanding of the human condition. ‘The Struggling Class’ will be a term new to many, but it is, indeed, the way of life for too many others. The book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand, in a way that is both supremely accessible and thoroughly researched, how economic, racial, class, caste, geographical, environmental, and other factors converge to create systemic inequalities designed to hold down a diverse stratum of people – from the Native residents on the Standing Rock Nation, where I grew up, to those doing their level best to make life work every day in places like Appalachia, Wind River, and Oakland. It skillfully illustrates key connective tissues that demonstrate how, despite outward differences, we share in the same struggle. In order to reinvent a democracy that works for everyone, we need radical, systemic change that begins to address the financialized, extractive colonial mentality and other, deeply embedded, cultural wrongs. Only in this way can we begin to envision a fairer, healthier future for the next generations.”
Chase Iron Eyes, Lakota People’s Law Project Co-Director and Lead Counsel
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Ellison Thompson is a Lakota woman who lives in McLaughlin. She and her husband were both unemployed when she got pregnant. That’s when they made a deal that whoever got a job first would take it – the other, by necessity, would be the stay-at-home parent when the baby came. Ellison got the first job; her husband is now a stay-at-home dad caring for their ten-month-old baby. With a second child on the way this arrangement is unlikely to change. Ellison would like to go to back to school to complete a degree but there’s never enough time for everything that needs to get done as it is.
Ellison works full-time as a clerk in the hospitality industry to support her family. “I’m really thankful for my employer because they do provide really good health insurance and a steady paycheck, and that’s what I need. It’s hard for a lot of people to find a job around here.” In 2016, 16.4% of the Standing Rock population earned less than $10,000 a year.25 As on other reservations, life expectancy and quality of life rates are among the lowest in the Western Hemisphere; Native children face premature death rates that are three to four times higher than the national average.26
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