Dispossessed by Noelle Stout
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of Wall Street banks’ mortgage assistance programs—backed by over $300 billion of federal funds—to deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, corporate lenders and loan servicers ultimately denied over 70 percent of homeowner applications. In the voices of bank employees and homeowners, Stout unveils how call center representatives felt about denying appeals and shares the fears of families living on the brink of eviction. Stout discloses the impacts of rising inequality on homeowners—from whites who felt their middle-class life unraveling to communities of color who experienced a more precipitous and dire decline. Trapped in a Kafkaesque maze of mortgage assistance, borrowers began to view debt refusal as a moral response to lenders, as seemingly mundane bureaucratic dramas came to redefine the meaning of debt and dispossession.-
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
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Reimagining Global Health
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Righteous Dopefiend
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To Repair the World
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Illegality, Inc.
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Shadows of War
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Why Did They Kill?
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When Bodies Remember
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Chechnya
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Partner to the Poor
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Archaeology as Political Action
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Annihilating Difference
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My Name Is Jody Williams
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Counting the Dead
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The United States of War
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Leave If You Can
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Birthing the Nation
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Paradise in Ashes
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Exit Wounds
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Total Confinement
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Global Outlaws
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Driving after Class
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Blind Spot
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Dawn Rose on a Dead Body
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Call the Mothers
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Life in Traffic
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Democratic Insecurities
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Nuclear Ghost
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Deported to Death
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Returned
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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields
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The Spectacular Favela
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Living with Difference
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Jornalero
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Making Global MBAs
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Fighting to Breathe
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The Spirit Ambulance
"Building on existing research about the Great Recession, [Stout] offers intimate interviews with a dozen families who lost their homes in the Sacramento Valley. . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *
Noelle Stout is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba and director of the documentary Luchando.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780520291775 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520291778 |
| Title | Dispossessed |
| Author | Noelle Stout |
| Series | California Series In Public Anthropology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2019-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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