Poverty Is On Purpose

Sara Rankin

Poverty Is On Purpose is a term and hashtag used by Sara Rankin, Professor of Law and  Director of Homeless Rights Advocacy Project at Seattle University School of Law.

Hashtag: #povertyisonpurpose.  Twitter search for this hashtag. 

 

Call for reading suggestions

Sara Rankin‏ @ProfSaraRankin 8:28 AM - 18 Jan 2018
"What are your go-to texts for explaining the intention and self-preserving function of institutional and systemic discrimination?"

See thread. 

 

Reading list from Sara Rankin

(initially posted by Sara Rankin on Twitter, 18 Jan 2018): 

• Dimed to Death.
• Hand to Mouth.
• Bacon, David. (displacement and migration).
• Desmond, Matthew. Evicted.
• DeParle. American Dream.
• Edelman, Peter - works.
• Freire. Pedagogy of the Poor.
• Gilmore, Ruthie (prison boom)
• Knight. Institutions and Social Conflict.
• Lipman. "Antipoverty Measures."
• Kozol, Jonathan - works.
• McCluskey, Mary - work.
• Piven & Cloward. Regulating the Poor.
• Rothstein, Edward. The Color of Law.
• Soss, et al. Disciplining the Poor. 
• Tiabbi, The Divide. 
  "I like The Divide (explaining how the rich commit fraud to enrich themselves and to preserve the status quo) because it is a little more popular/mainstream media accessible."
• Sudbury, Julia. (on militarism)
• Taylor, Keeanga-Yahmahtta (on US anti-black racism).

 

Suggestions from respondents

 

• Hatcher, Daniel L. (@PovertyLawProf). Poverty Industry. 
  (suggested by Colleen Shanahan @shanahanlawprof)