Poverty Is On Purpose

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)