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Book Review: The shame game: Overturning the toxic poverty narrative by Brie Radis is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative, a timely publication given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, is an interesting text for anyone open to understanding more about the current widespread poverty narrative in the United States and the United Kingdom (UK), a story that both blames and shames those who experience poverty. The central thesis is supported by shocking statistics, powerful quotes from policy experts and politicians, an intimate personal narration from the author, and extensive interviews conducted by Mary O'Hara, award-winning journalist and creator of Project Twist (https://www.projecttwistit.com/), an online platform focused on changing how we dialogue about poverty. The author successfully demonstrates how government officials and the media stigmatize, create stereotypes, and falsify data so that those who live in poverty are viewed as lazy and undeserving, through a harmful narrative that plays a significant role in perpetuating and sustaining poverty. O'Hara carefully delineates a core component of the toxic poverty narrative in that society and corporations blame individuals and communities for their plight, but O'Hara confidently counters this arg
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- Author
- Brie Radis
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences