Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity

Stephanie M. Baran

doi:10.5771/9781793608543

Summary

In Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity: Navigating Insecurities in an American City, Stephanie Baran argues that when it comes to assistance the United States government often creates more problems than it solves. These institutions are not in the business of creating a pathway for people to escape poverty, often compounding that poverty instead. Through a two-year ethnographic study of poverty and insecurity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the author shows how people navigate situations of poverty through interviews with recipients and organizations as well as those working at a local community pantry. Consequently, research uncovered how local food organizations with connections to the Milwaukee Chapter of the Black Panther Party hide their more radical roots to protect food donations from white donors, in essence protecting white fragility. People are far closer to experiencing poverty than they realize, as shown by the Government Shutdown of 2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and typically have incomplete and inaccurate ideas of poverty as well as how people can experience upward mobility. Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity reveals this gap through a focus on how all these factors show up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-0853-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-0854-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 206
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Figures No access
4. List of Abbreviations No access
5. 1. Notes No access
6. Acknowledgments No access
7. 1. 1. Whiteness in the Field No access
    2. Qualitative Research No access
    3. Participant Observation No access
    4. Participants No access
    5. Feed the Need No access
    6. 1. Qualitative No access
    7. Geographical Methodology No access
    8. Limitations No access
  2. Notes No access
1. 1. How a Researcher Can Appropriately Research No access
  2. Harambee No access
  3. 1. Web of Systems No access
  4. Individual Recipients No access
  5. Chapter Organization No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. How This Adventure Began No access
  2. The Pantry Layout No access
  3. Pantry Rules, Regulations, and Perceptions of the Pantry Patrons No access
  4. Change of Staff No access
  5. The Main Volunteers No access
  6. Jenny No access
  7. Harold No access
  8. Wynette No access
  9. The Regulars No access
  10. Gender at the Pantry No access
  11. Whiteness at the Pantry No access
  12. Interlacing Race and Gender in the Kitchen No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. Symbolic Annihilation No access
  2. Annihilation and Media Representations No access
  3. Racialized Media Perceptions of Welfare Receipt No access
  4. What Is Going on Here? No access
  5. Work Ethic No access
  6. Deservingness, Enlightened Racism, Poverty Is So Simple No access
  7. But Poor People Shouldn’t Have Lobster No access
  8. Color-blind Racism and Immigrants No access
  9. Intersections of Racism and Lack of Reproductive Autonomy No access
  10. Bodies and Ability No access
  11. How Does Food Insecurity Fit into This? No access
2. Notes No access
1. Welfare: History of Assistance No access
2. Racism: American as Apple Pie No access
3. Prejudice and Implicit Bias No access
4. What the W-2 Can Do for You No access
5. Social Construction Ahead No access
6. When Sociology Victim-Blamed: Exploring the Myth of the Culture of Poverty No access
7. Spatial Mismatch No access
8. Milwaukee: Sites of Spatial Mismatch and Food Insecurity No access
9. Notes No access
1. Results of Urban Inequality No access
2. Milwaukee: The Gathering Place and the Good Land No access
3. The Southside No access
4. The Westside: Harambee and Riverwest No access
5. White Flight and Visualized Segregation No access
6. Visual Representations No access
7. Demographic Shifts 1940 No access
8. Demographic Shifts 1950 No access
9. Demographic Shifts 1960 No access
10. Great Migrations No access
11. Demographic Shifts 1970 No access
12. Demographic Shifts 1980 No access
13. Demographic Shifts in 1990 and 2000 No access
14. Milwaukee: An American City No access
15. Enduring Legacies of Segregation: Color-Blind Racism No access
16. Symbolic Annihilation No access
17. What Does All the Above Mean? No access
18. Nutrition Deserts and Food Insecurity No access
19. Lack of Fresh Markets, but Not Community No access
20. Conclusion No access
21. Notes No access
1. “Getting Invited to the Cookout” No access
2. Birthdays No access
3. Weddings No access
4. Whiteness at the Table No access
5. Bernice No access
6. Mikayla and Brenna No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. What Is a Shutdown? No access
  2. The Shutdown Starts No access
  3. The Pantry during a Shutdown No access
  4. Tension Increases No access
  5. Pantry Function No access
  6. Working the Food Line No access
  7. The SNAP Gap No access
  8. The Pandemic of 2020 No access
  9. CARES Act No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. Social Workers/Case Managers No access
  2. Social Work Process and the Shutdown No access
  3. Working under Confusion No access
  4. Not Always a Rosy Picture: The Common Perception of Social Workers No access
  5. The Recipients No access
  6. Race No access
  7. Restrictions and Shopping No access
  8. Anxiety and Fear No access
  9. Disappointment No access
  10. Responsibility No access
  11. Can You Fix a Broken System or Is the System Working as Intended? No access
  12. Participant Led Change No access
  13. Social Work and Quarantine No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. In the Beginning No access
  2. Is That It? No access
  3. Removing the History from the Task Force No access
  4. Service Programs No access
  5. Symbolic Annihilation No access
  6. May the Force Be with You No access
  7. The Hawley Center No access
  8. Tariffs Close to Home No access
  9. Robles Center No access
  10. The Farm and Hatchery No access
  11. Local Labor Force No access
  12. Hunger Focus No access
  13. Where Symbolic Violence and Annihilation Intersect No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. Shutdown and Pandemic Impact No access
Bibliography No access Pages 187 - 198
Index No access Pages 199 - 204
About the Author No access Pages 205 - 206