[CASL-L] Journal entries, diaries or excerpts of memoirs by Americans who have lived or are living in poverty

[Barbara Lyons]

Karen,
I would add:
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives  by Sasha
Abramsky.  (nonfiction with short first-person accounts within)
$2.00 a day: living on almost nothing in America edited by Kathryn J.Edin &
H. Luke Shaefer  (describes case studies)
Growing up Poor: A Literary Anthology edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa
Heartland: a Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country
on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
-Barb Lyons



On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:41 PM Deloatch, Karen L <KDeloatch at ccc.commnet.edu>
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> Colleagues,
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> We have a professor who wants her class to find journal entries, diaries
> or excerpts of memoirs by Americans who have lived or are living in
> poverty. Do you have any names of such persons that you can provide?
> Thanks.
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> Karen DeLoatch
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