Full Description
The Souls of Poor Folk is a collection of essays in the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois's classic The Souls of Black Folk. The essays move between the scholarly, the narrative, and the testimonial just as they do in Du Bois's book. This text is meant to be a contribution to the critical dialogue around ways to alleviate poverty in our world. The contributors are diverse in their experience, origin, perspectives, and beliefs about the appropriate means to alleviate poverty and its many causes.
This book is an essential companion to a multimedia initiative featuring a documentary and original music compilation available on compact disc that invites readers, listeners, and viewers to journey beyond the veil that hides the scars and blemishes of social problems, such as homelessness and poverty, especially in America. To learn more about the successful non-profit "Greater Love Project" initiative or to purchase other companion items including the CD, please visit: www.thesoulsofpoorfolk.org.
Contents
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Part 3 The Forethought
Chapter 4 Long Ways from Home: Motions, Memories, and Katrina's Storm Surge
Chapter 5 From Refugee Camps to the City of the Dead: Poverty in the Middle East
Chapter 6 Come and See: A Theology of the Poor
Chapter 7 Tears in the Sudan
Chapter 8 American Goddamn: God and Hip Hop in an Age of War, Terror, and Dread
Chapter 9 Strategies for Raising Poverty in America as a Violation of International Human Rights Law
Chapter 10 Silent Pulpits: A Historical Examination of Black Christian Engagement with Capitalism
Part 11 Afterword
