Books like The other America by Harrington, Michael

Barbara Ehrenreich explores the realities of low‑wage work by living in sweatshops, hostels, and retail in three U.S. cities during the late 1990s.

A scholarly examination of the experiences and social dynamics of poor white Americans, with a focus on the Southern United States.

A young white woman's journey into a black community to study the family support systems coping with poverty, debunking the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized.

A poor boy, growing up in Buffalo, NY, becomes a wanderer and survivor in America's cities, facing madness and homelessness.

As this century comes to a close, debates over immigration policy, racial preferences, and multiculturalism challenge the consensus that formerly grounded our national culture. The question of our national identity is as urgent as it has ever been in our history. Is our society disintegrating into a collection of separate ethnic enclaves, or is there a way that we can forge a coherent, unified identity as we enter the 21st century? In this book Michael Lind provides a comprehensive revisionist view of the American past and offers a concrete proposal for nation-building reforms to strengthen the American future. He shows that the forces of nationalism and the ideal of a trans-racial melting pot need not be in conflict with each other, and he provides a practical agenda for a liberal nationalist revolution that would combine a new color-blind liberalism in civil rights with practical measures for reducing class based barriers to racial integration.