Description:
A generational work with far-ranging social and political implications, White Poverty, promises to be one of the most influential books in recent years.
Brief description: Reverend William J. Barber II is a Protestant minister, social activist, professor, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. President of Repairers of the Breach, Barber will lead the Poor People's Campaign's March on Washington in June 2024.
Review Quotes: 'One of the most damnable features of our common life is the way we talk about poverty as if it's an anomaly and not a feature of our economic system, ' writes [Reverend William J.] Barber II, founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. That feature shifts wealth from the already have-nots to the already haves, but with divisive subterfuge: White Americans are thought to be working-class and Blacks poor. The definition of poverty must be extended, notes the author, to incorporate anybody who cannot afford to pay rent and their other expenses, which would result in a number far larger than is now counted by official reports... [White Poverty is] a meaningful call to revise our view of poverty and to insist on real action to rectify the situation.-- "Kirkus Reviews"