03754cam a2200373 4500 433831561 TxAuBib 20201130120000.0 200519s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020021315 9781982147778 PAP 17.99 1982147776 PAP 17.99 TxAuBib Midland [BOOK] : reports from flyover country / [edited by] Michael Croley & Jack Shuler. First Tiller Press trade paperback edition. New York : Tiller Press, 2020. xx, 232 pages ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Campaign Trails -- Down River / Mei-Ling Hopgood -- The Many, Tangled American Definitions of Socialism / Peter Slevin -- Searching for the Other Midwestern Swing Voter: (Spoiler: She's Black and Lives in Detroit) / Wendy S. Walters -- The Iowa Caucus: An Obituary / Courtney Crowder -- In Praise of the Rookie / Heather Sinclair Shaw -- Constituent Concerns -- Compromised: A Group of Small-Town Environmentalists Wanted to Stop a Potentially Toxic Costco Chicken Plant. How Did They End Up Fighting Alongside: Anti-Muslim Xenophobes? / Ted Genoways -- Bodies on the Line: Protest, Politics, and Power on an Appalachian Railroad / Sydney Boles -- The Young Hands that Feed Us: An Estimated 524,000 Children Work Unimaginably Long Hours in America's Grueling Agricultural Fields, and It's All Perfectly Legal / Karen Coates and Valeria Fernańdez -- In Rural Colorado, Undocumented Immigrants Defend Themselves From Encroaching Immigration Agents / Esther Honig -- Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America: In the Poorest Towns, Where Even Walmart Failed, the Little-Box Player Is Turning a Profit / Mya Frazier -- Fighting to Breathe: East Chicago's Struggle for Clean Air and Soil / Brittany King -- Fear: How the NRA Sells Guns in America Today / Elliott Woods -- Does Standing Rock Live in Your Imagination? / Graham Lee Brewer -- White Working-Class Grievance and the Black Midwesterner / Tamara Winfrey-Harris -- Race Home / Fitale Wari -- Solutions -- Can't We All Just Get Along?: A Road Trip with My Trump-Loving Cousin / Bryan Mealer -- What It Took to Finally Confront My Family about Race and Politics / Sarah Menkedick -- The Coolest Parents in Johnson County, Kansas / C. J. Janovy -- The Struggle of Death, Hope, and Harm Reduction in the Midwest / Zachary Siegel -- Connecting in the Heartland / Paul DeMain -- Where is Trump country? / Oakley Fugate -- Reporting for America / Maggie Messitt -- Afterword -- All I Could Hear Was Sickness: Coronavirus from Inside a Prison / Lamar L. Walker. "A collection of revelatory stories from leading journalists between the coasts, offering a perspective on immigration, drug addiction, climate change, and more that you won't find in the national media"-- Provided by publisher. 20201130. Right and left (Political science) United States 21st century. Working class Middle West Attitudes. Working class Middle West Social conditions 21st century. Public opinion United States. United States Politics and government 2017- Public opinion. United States Rural conditions 21st century. Middle West Description and travel. Middle West Politcs and government 21st century Case studies. Middle West Race relations Anecdotes. Middle West Social conditions Anecdotes. Shuler, Jack, author. Croley, Michael, author.