Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel “stolen”? In this talk, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses her latest work, Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right.
Hosted by The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
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Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of many groundbreaking books, including The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The Time Bind as well as Strangers in Their Own Land, which became an instant bestseller and was a finalist for a National Book Award, and Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (both from The New Press).