Screen LibraryEconomic injustice and the rhetoric of the American dream /
"Our economic arrangements require a persuasive story that can explain who is rich, who is poor, and why. This story shapes our attitudes toward what is just and unjust; this story dispenses power to some and withholds it from others; and the deeply political and paradoxical nature of this stor...
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Lexington Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Our economic arrangements require a persuasive story that can explain who is rich, who is poor, and why. This story shapes our attitudes toward what is just and unjust; this story dispenses power to some and withholds it from others; and the deeply political and paradoxical nature of this story presents a valuable site of rhetorical inquiry. Economic Injustice and the Rhetoric of the American Dream fills an important scholarly gap by connecting the need to make sense of economic arrangements with the rhetoric of the American Dream. Luke Winslow examines how the rhetoric of the American Drea |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 165 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-159) and index. |
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9781498544146 (hardback) : 1498544142 (hardback) 9781498544153 1498544150 |
| Index Number: | HC106 |
| CLC: | F171.247 |
| Call Number: | F171.247/W779 |
| Contents: | Introduction: economic injustice and the rhetoric of the American dream -- The language of inequality -- The myth of the American dream -- Prosperity theology and the American dream -- Education, neoliberalism, and the American dream -- The Great Recession and the collapse of the American dream -- Trump's rapture in the ashes of the American dream -- Constructing an alternative vocabulary. |