Based on a 20-month ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in consider

Framing Class explores how the media, including television, film, and news, depict wealth and poverty in the United States. Fully updated and revised throughout

The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meani

This companion to PBS-TV's upcoming America's War On Poverty series offers a profound look at one of America's most pressing problems. Through gripping intervie

Born into poverty in Hammond, Indiana, not much was expected from Irvin Acie Cross. But with much hard work and dedication, he put together one of the most incr