No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman Summary
Overview of No Shame in My Game
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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知識を魅力的で例が豊富な洞察に変換
キーアイデアを瞬時にキャプチャして素早く学習
楽しく魅力的な方法で本を楽しむ
重要なポイント
When Work Isn't Enough: The Invisible Crisis
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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The Strength of Family and Defying Stereotypes
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
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"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
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"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
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