
In "No Shame in My Game," Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman dismantles poverty myths through intimate portraits of Harlem's working poor. Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this eye-opening study asks: Why do we stigmatize those fighting hardest to escape poverty's grip?
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Here's a scene that shatters our assumptions: thousands of people in Harlem, dressed for work, waiting at bus stops on a Monday morning in 1989. This wasn't supposed to exist. The prevailing narrative painted inner cities as "jobless ghettos" where welfare dependency ruled and work was a foreign concept. But what if the story we've been telling ourselves about poverty is fundamentally wrong? What if the problem isn't that poor people won't work, but that work itself has failed them? This is the uncomfortable truth at the heart of America's working poor - 7.4 million people who clock in, follow the rules, and still can't escape poverty. They're invisible not because they're hiding, but because acknowledging them forces us to confront a disturbing reality: in the world's wealthiest nation, playing by the rules doesn't guarantee survival. Think about who comes to mind when you hear "poverty." Probably not someone in a work uniform rushing to catch a bus. The working poor occupy a strange liminal space in American consciousness - too employed to provoke outrage like welfare recipients, too poor to have political clout, too scattered to organize like traditional labor. Yet they're everywhere: changing hospital linens, flipping burgers, bagging groceries, cleaning office buildings after dark. They live perpetually on the edge, where one sick child means unemployment, one missed rent payment means eviction, one car breakdown means catastrophe.
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