Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream (Nation Books, 2017) by Sasha Abramsky, a lecturer in the University Writing Program, sets out to uncover what things frighten us most: from terrorist attacks to illegal immigrants to the Zika virus, and posits why our fears are in many cases misplaced; how this hysteria is often based on issues of race, segregation, class and inequality; and how we cannot let it define us.
Professor Abramsky specializes in political reporting and social justice journalism, with an emphasis on reporting on poverty, immigration, the criminal justice system. Her book 'The American Way of Poverty' was listed as one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of the Year, establishing her as a national expert on poverty and on ways of giving voice to those living in poverty. She also write extensively on both documented and undocumented immigration. She is a political correspondent and columnist for the Nation, and is now their west coast correspondent; She has a long track-reoord of writing both about national and also state politics.
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