Piñatas / Michael Torres -- A genderpunk love letter / Alice Paige -- The last days of the Baldock / Inara Verzemnieks -- The promised land / Sarith Peou -- For a solidarity of condition and position : a report from a delivery driver in Manhattan / Anonymous -- Debt demands a body / Kristin Collier -- Saskatoons / Angela Pelster -- Can we move our forests in time to save them? / Lauren Markham -- Shape of the wound / Lacy M. Johnson -- The view from Mount Failure / Steve Almond -- There are no bars in Rush City / T M "Redd" Warren -- Kuv niam zoo nkauj : my mother is beautiful / Kao Kalia Yang -- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : a remembrance / Kiese Laymon -- Tell me how it ends / Valeria Luiselli.
Summary:
"This groundbreaking anthology of essays edited by incarcerated writers takes a sharp look at the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States. Featuring accounts that include gig work as a delivery driver, homelessness among trans youth, and life with immense student loan debt, in addition to transcripts of insightful discussions between the editors, American Precariat demonstrates how various and often invisible extreme instability can be. With the understanding that widespread recognition of collective precarity is an urgent concern, the anthology situates each individual portrait within societal structures of exclusion, scarcity, and criminality. These essays write through the silence around class to enumerate the risks thatour material conditions leave us no choice but to take. A rendering of the present moment told from below, American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division. In doing so, it offers healing for someof the world's fractures"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.