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Traveling Light:On the Road With america's Poor
[Paperback - 2009]
kath weston
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Sub-category: Anthropology
Additional Category: Automobiles - Sociology
Publisher: Beacon Press | ISBN: 9780807041383 | Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: .345 | Dimensions: 5.5 x .7 x 8.5 inches

Description

How far can you get on two tacos, one Dr. Pepper, and a little bit of conversation? What happens when you're broke and you need to get to a new job, an ailing parent, a powwow, college, or a funeral on the other side of the country? And after decades of globalization, what kind of America will you glimpse through the window on your way? For five years, Kath Weston rode the bus to find out.

Traveling Light is not just another book about people stuck in poverty. Rather, it's a book about how people move through poverty and their insights into the sweeping economic changes that affect us all. The result is a moving meditation on living poor in the world's wealthiest nation.

About the Author

Kath Weston grew up working-class, dreamed of becoming a writer, put in time on the street, and trained as an anthropologist on scholarship at the University of Chicago and Stanford. She is professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia and has taught at Arizona State, Harvard, Wellesley, Brandeis, and Tokyo University. Her books include Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor, Families We Choose; Long Slow Burn; Render Me, Gender Me; Gender in Real Time; and The Apprenticeship and Blue-Collar System.