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Eksmitowani. Nędza i zyski w jednym z amerykańskich miast by Matthew Desmond

40 reviews

elyssajoh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Drug abuse, Cursing, Alcohol, Addiction, and Abandonment

kquiring23's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

aqtbenz's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Classism

lily1304's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Honestly this was a brilliant ethnography - people don't take sociology seriously as a field of research, but this is an example of why they should! Personal stories hit home more than impersonal statistics, but Desmond cites plenty of research too to back up the stories he records.

Do not skip the epilogue and afterword about his research methods!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Violence

Descriptions of eviction, homelessness, hunger, and poverty

drinaiscold's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Violence

bri4103's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Racism, and Gun violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Murder

sfk's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Child death

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Xenophobia, Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Police brutality

fogthroughthevalley's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Contains both personal stories of eviction and academic analysis of the issue. The anecdotes draw you in and the issue solidifies in a way that might not already be apparent for people who have not experienced poverty and eviction firsthand. I would deem this an essential read for anyone interested in better understanding the inhumane systems currently in place in the United States.

Two quotes/sections of the book that immediately stood out to me:
"When people began to view their neighborhood as brimming with deprivation and vice, full of all sorts of shipwrecked humanity, they lost confidence in its political capacity. 
Milwaukee renters who perceived higher levels of neighborhood trauma, believing that their neighbors had experienced incarceration, abuse, addiction, and other harrowing events, were far less likely to believe that people in their community could come together to improve their lives. 
This lack of faith had less to do with their neighborhood's actual poverty and crime rates than with the level of concentrated suffering they perceived around them. 
A community that saw so clearly its own pain, had a difficult time also sensing its potential."

"But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality."
 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

dominicangirl's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury