A TALK BY
SASHA ABRAMSKY
FREELANCE JOURNALIST
&
AUTHOR
SENIOR FELLOW
DEMOS (U.S. Think Tank)
APRIL 18, 2014
SASHA ABRAMSKY
UNIVERSITY WRITING
PROGRAM
UC DAVIS
THE AMERICAN WAY OF POVERTY
PRESENTED BY
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
The title talk is the title of Abramsky’s recently published book (Nation Books, 2013). He
will be discussing the causes and the consequences, both on individuals, and on the bodypolitic of the extraordinary rise both in poverty and inequality in the 21 st century America.
what does it mean on a political level when one in six Americans are utterly excluded from
the economic mainstream? What political choices led to this situation? And what political
solutions can be implemented to turn a corner on the crisis?
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Sasha Abramsky is a widely published freelance author, senior fellow at the New York
City-based Demos think tank, and a part-time lecturer in the University Writing Program
at U.C. Davis. His work has appeared in the Nation, the American Prospect, the New
\Yorker online, the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice and numerous other
publications in the U.S. and the U.K. Abramsky’s sixth book, The American Way of Poverty:
How the Other Half Still Lives, was widely discussed -- and compared to Michael
Harrington’s The Other America – when it was published by Nation Books in September,
2013. The New York Times listed it amongst its 100 Notable Books of 2013. Abramsky lives
in Sacramento with his wife and two children.
FRIDAY,
April 18, 2014
12:30 – 2:00
THURGOOD MARSHALL
COLLEGE
ADMINISTRATION
BUILDING
CONFERENCE ROOM 127
Anyone needing special
accommodations, directions
to, or information about this
talk should contact:
Robert Horwitz
[email protected]