Families on the Fault Line

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Praise for Families on the Fault Line
"No one listens and makes the rest of us hear like Lillian Rubin. In this eloquent, powerful book, she recovers the lives of working-class Americans, white and black, new immigrant and old. . . . Combining analytic brilliance with human generosity a monument to the millions of Americans made invisible by the fascination with the rich in the Reagan/Bush years."
—Michael Rogin, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
"A searing, compassionate portrait of American family life. It is Rubin's triumph. Having read this book I can tndy say I have heard America speaking."
—Kim Chernin
"Sixteen years after the publication of Worlds of Pain . . . Rubin returns to reevaluate the impact of social, political, and economic changes upon blue-collar families. . . . Rubin fervently describes working-class frustration, anger, fears, hopes, and dreams. She debunks the myth of America as a classless society and, most... Tovább

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SOCIOLOGY
Praise for Families on the Fault Line
"No one listens and makes the rest of us hear like Lillian Rubin. In this eloquent, powerful book, she recovers the lives of working-class Americans, white and black, new immigrant and old. . . . Combining analytic brilliance with human generosity a monument to the millions of Americans made invisible by the fascination with the rich in the Reagan/Bush years."
—Michael Rogin, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
"A searing, compassionate portrait of American family life. It is Rubin's triumph. Having read this book I can tndy say I have heard America speaking."
—Kim Chernin
"Sixteen years after the publication of Worlds of Pain . . . Rubin returns to reevaluate the impact of social, political, and economic changes upon blue-collar families. . . . Rubin fervently describes working-class frustration, anger, fears, hopes, and dreams. She debunks the myth of America as a classless society and, most importantly, argues that racial and ethnic discontent is due to the social and economic upheavals of the past two decades. . . . Many blue-collar families are living on a societal fault line, awaiting the big quake."
—Library Journal
"Lillian Rubin's new book, Families on the Fault Line, goes directly to the experience of ordinary people and shows how the connection between economic decline and racial tension is continuously reinvented in America."
—Troy Duster, Institute for Social Change, University of California, Berkeley
Lillian B. Rubin is a noted sociologist and the internationally recognized author of Worlds of Pain, fust Friends, and Intimate Strangers, among other titles. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is a practicing psychotherapist as well as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley. Vissza