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Couze Venn was a brilliant collaborator throughout his academic career, but his greatest collaboration was with Francesca, and I am going to discuss the book they wrote together. The book's focus is poverty, but specifically poverty in relation to education and social class, recognizing that poverty and class are inextricably enmeshed. Social class inequalities in education are rife, and although the ways in which they are played out in classrooms has changed dramatically since the nineteenth century Francesca and Couze write so eloquently about, they still have enormous power to damage children's sense of themselves as learners. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row," by Forrest Stuart, is presented.

While Lewis makes a convincing case for reading the scam as a form of reparations, I question its framing as a form of Black repair. I Scammer's Yard i draws us into the world of Omar, Junior, and Dwayne, three young, poor Black men of Montego Bay who decide to engage in the Jamaican lottery scam. Lewis at times conflates reparations and repair; thus, I find it useful here to note how Deborah A. Thomas (2019) distinguishes the two, also from the theoretical standpoint of Jamaica. [Extracted from the article]

This long-term perspective on Esperanza's life and Panama's history is made possible by Rudolf's half-century of research in Loma Bonita. Based on Rudolf's nearly fifty years of research in rural Panama, I Esperanza Speaks i traces the effects of global capitalism on one family of subsistence farmers and wage laborers. [Extracted from the article]

Hinojosa takes seriously both the religiosity of seemingly secular activists and the politics of organized religion; at the nexus, he charts a new Latina/o religious history that took its cues directly from the streets. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses some of the famous motion pictures. The film "Citizen Ruth," is a nails-on-blackboard comedy about one of the undeserving poor who does not hesitate to sell her body to the highest bidder. "Election," is a comedy of resentment, based upon a book by Tom Perrotta and written for the screen by Jim Taylor, happens to concern a young woman's relentless striving to be number one. The film's bootstrapper is eleventh grader Tracy Flick, who in her self-improving, self-advancing drive is determined to become the next school president. Election also acknowledges the anxiety that lies beneath Tracy's enameled pertness.

The paper entitled "Negative impacts of Globalisation in Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger' attempts to explore the unequal results of globalization that is negative impact of globalization. Obviously globalization helps to develop a nations' growth on the other hand it brings changes in our own culture, widen the gap between the rich and the poor and it affects our own language. It kindles people's desire to become rich. Through kindle people's desire it changes the character of the people. Globalisation changes the mundane as murderer. Adiga, in 'White Tiger' through the character of 'Balram'clearlyportrays all these changes. By his writings Adiga showcases how the impulse to become rich makes people act less compassionate and humane in the age of globalization. He has got The Man Booker Prize for his real portrayal of this society as 'The White Tiger'. It explores how the greed to become rich makes people more self-centred and provokes them to do dirty, unimaginable things to other fellow-beings. In reality, globalization, which seems to have contributed to the growth of developing nations, actually has widened the gap between the rich and the poor in developing nations. Because of globalisation the unquenchable desire for wealth drives the middle class and thunder privileged to indulge in criminal activities. An attempt has been made to explore this reprehensible acquisitiveness of the people which makes them more self-centred and inhumane with reference toAdiga's 'The White Tiger'. It paves way for multiculturalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Nature of Mass Poverty," by John Kenneth Galbraith. INSET: Films Worth Seeing..

Reviews the book "Prelude to Riot: A View of Urban America From the Bottom," by Paul Jacobs.

Reviews the book "Mental Health of the Poor," edited by Frank Riessman, Jerome Cohen and Arthur Pearl.

The article presents information about monuments in the U.S. It appears that many American cities and villages, now somewhat bare of other ornament than wayside trees, will either be adorned by good buildings or disfigured by very bad ones, and that many cemeteries will either gain their first good monuments or be more than ever burdened by those which are poor and tame. For it is difficult to build a monument of negative merit. Such buildings, as they have no utilitarian character, must be truly beautiful, or they are ugly and hurtful.

In I Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul i , its title taken from a Sargent Shriver quote about the moral imperative for a national crusade against poverty, Bauman fills a still-gaping hole in War on Poverty historiography. [Extracted from the article]

In this moment of history that has been described by democracy champion Larry Diamond as a 'democracy recession', is it helpful to argue by taking no prisoners and not letting inconvenient truths get in the way? In The tyranny of experts, Bill Easterly uses his trademark blend of insight and relentlessness to detail two big and important ideas: that underlying the prescriptions of all too many development practitioners is the hidden presumption of governance by well-intentioned autocrats; and that, by contrast, free societies offer the opportunity for people, societies and economies to thrive. But the book's mode of argumentation and its substance are at odds with much recent scholarship on how institutions evolve in the course of development. As this literature underscores, countries diverge from one another in the patterns of leads and lags through which public sector capability and the rule of law strengthen. In some settings statebuilding leads; in others, a strengthened rule of law comes first. Both sequences are fraught with risk and the potential for unintended consequences. Rather than engage with the challenges posed by this scholarship, The tyranny of experts dismissively brushes aside any and all complications, counterexamples and other inconvenient truths. In this era of evident challenge and complexity, overheated, argumentative enthusiasm can no longer substitute for the hard practical work that needs to be done. We need to move on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A further distinction not considered by Stephenson is found in the Workhouse schools set up from the 1840s, whose institutional clothing was deliberately stigmatising. Another issue not fully examined is the simplification of uniform garments in state schools, apparent from the 1960s, to grey, navy or black main garments (usually with red and black trim) distinguished only by the school logo. School uniforms are, as Kate Stephenson points out in her introduction, a 'widely identifiable and understood symbol of the British education system' (p. 1). [Extracted from the article]

We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign edited by Liz Theoharis (Broadleaf Books, 2021) Theoharis consults pastors, protestors, and people living in poverty to compile this bundle of essays that reveals a new view of poverty: one of justice, not judgment. Phillips shares his powerful personal experience alongside statistics and research to reveal the privilege and racism inherent in America's education system. No Place for Ethics: Judicial Review, Legal Positivism, and the Supreme Court of the United States by T. Patrick Hill (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) Hill tackles the relationship between law and ethics and explores the responsibility of the U.S. legal system when it comes to the common good. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations" by Nicole Hassoun.

The article presents reviews of the book "The Bureaucrat and the Poor: Encounters in French Welfare Offices," by Vincent Dubois, translated by Jean-Yves Bart.