Books by Annelise Orleck
“I love this book because it talks about a fabulous advocate named Ruby Duncan and the people that she was working to organize. Annelise Orleck interviewed a lot of the women who were part of the Welfare Rights Movement in Las Vegas, Nevada in the late 1960s and early 1970s. What makes the book so exciting is that she gets into their stories about coming up from the South and coming to Las Vegas to try to get better jobs. They explained how their kids were so poor and hungry that they became absolutely desperate and angry at the same time. Many of them had applied for public assistance or welfare. That was barely keeping them alive, and they were struggling.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Annelise Orleck were recommended
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
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Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
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Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
by Andrew Fisher -
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Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
Hunger in the United States is not going to be solved just by giving people more food, says Mariana Chilton, a professor of public health at Drexel University and author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America. She recommends books to get a better understanding of hunger and argues that food banks have become part of the problem.
