Description: In these essays, the authors focus on problems that keep the regions of northern New England, the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the Delta, Appalachia, the southern Black belt, the "flannel shirt frontier" of Oregon, the Ozarks, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and rural California below the national average in income and standard-of-living surveys. High illiteracy, lack of industry and capital, and inability to influence government policy have too often perpetuated a vicious circle of poverty for many people in forgotten places.
Review Quotes:
"In spite of a quarter century of serious effort to eliminate, or at least reduce, rural poverty, pockets of intense poverty still exist. If you want to know why this is so, Forgotten Places will provide many insightful and thought provoking answers."--Gene Summers, author of Technology and Social Change in Rural Areas
"A welcome, readable analysis of rural poverty in key regions across the country. A major contribution to rural sociology."--John Gaventa, author of Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley