▪ Abstract Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty
research conducted by US policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating …

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was
supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless …

The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting
women not only in third world countries but also in the West. Taking globalization as its …

In many of the qualitative studies conducted in impoverished communities, a primary interest
that anthropologists and other researchers have had has been to contest the notion that the …

Through an exploration of settings in eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, and western
North Carolina, this article explores lessons that poor and working class people have to offer …

Until the late twentieth century, the majority of foreign-born children adopted in the United
States came from Korea. In the absorbing book Reframing Transracial Adoption, Kristi Brian …

This paper examines how neoliberal projects of subjectification have reshaped the
politicization of the US urban poor. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of civic …

This chapter aims to demonstrate that anthropological work on the United States has
generated important theories, concepts, methodologies, and insights that have been …

The past 15 years or so has been a particularly conflicted period in the history of our rather
contentious discipline, par-ticularly with respect to the production of that form most closely …

From the point of view of global justice activists, the Republican National Convention
constituted an opportunity to protest downsizing, deregulation, privatization, welfare state …