Strangers in Their Own Land
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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Strangers in Their Own Land
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Suzanne Toren
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident - people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.
Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Instead Hochschild finds lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, an elusive American dream - and political choices and views that make sense in the context of their lives. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to live in "red" America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: Why do the people who would seem to benefit most from "liberal" government intervention abhor the very idea?
Cover image © Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
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I was most impressed by her formulation of their Deep Story, because I would have thought her incapable of formulating it because she has so strong liberal biases herself. As it is formulated, one wonders whether she could formulate her own deep story. At the end of the book, there is a short version of the liberal deep story. What I miss, though, is an attempt to know what is true, right and wrong about these deep stories. She does think that the Deep Story of Louisianans is flawed and wrong (morally), but what about its truth. Aren’t there any truth to it? When it comes to discussing economics, she basically says that Democratic lead states are the better, so says some economists she has read. I felt kind of argumentatively shortchanged on those points, because she kind of used it to prove that environment and economical development are not mutually exclusive. I’d like to think they are not, but maybe the case isn’t as clear for Louisiana and the options, they had?
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