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Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America by Cynthia M. Duncan (review)

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America by Cynthia M. Duncan (review) Cynthia M. Duncan. Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 325 pages. $27.50. This is an informative and important book that has deep personal meaning for me. Cynthia Duncan, a former administrator for the Mountain Association For Community Economic Development in Berea, Kentucky, has examined three rural communities in different sections of the country to uncover the critical factors that determine the extent, depth, and persistence of poverty in non-urban America. The book is based upon extensive research in the census reports and 350 interviews with community members of all ethnicities and classes. Duncan, now an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, deliberately chooses communities that are identified with nationally recognized areas of deprivation and that are culturally very different from each other. The first community examined is Blackwell, a coal mining community in eastern Kentucky. Although Duncan attempts to disguise her communities, it seems clear that this small town is Harlan. Duncan points out that the most significant sociological factor in this community is the deep divide between the middle-class town dwellers and unemployed poor in the county. Duncan explains in detail how the exploitative policies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America by Cynthia M. Duncan (review)

McKinney, Gordon B.
Appalachian Review , Volume 27 (4) – Jan 8, 1999
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Cynthia M. Duncan. Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 325 pages. $27.50. This is an informative and important book that has deep personal meaning for me. Cynthia Duncan, a former administrator for the Mountain Association For Community Economic Development in Berea, Kentucky, has examined three rural communities in different sections of the country to uncover the critical factors that determine the extent, depth, and persistence of poverty in non-urban America. The book is based upon extensive research in the census reports and 350 interviews with community members of all ethnicities and classes. Duncan, now an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, deliberately chooses communities that are identified with nationally recognized areas of deprivation and that are culturally very different from each other. The first community examined is Blackwell, a coal mining community in eastern Kentucky. Although Duncan attempts to disguise her communities, it seems clear that this small town is Harlan. Duncan points out that the most significant sociological factor in this community is the deep divide between the middle-class town dwellers and unemployed poor in the county. Duncan explains in detail how the exploitative policies

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Published: Jan 8, 1999

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