Surviving Dictatorship: A Work of Visual Sociology

Intentionally written as a book for undergraduate students as well as a work of unique scholarship, Surviving Dictatorshipis also, both a visual sociology, and case study, that communicates the lived experience of poverty and powerlessness in an authoritarian society, that of Pinochet#xE2;#xAC;"s Chile.#xE3;#xAC;#xAC; So powerful a shaper of the poor#xE2;#xAC;"s experience is a dictatorship, that one might add "degree of authoritarianism" as an additional dimension to the idea, conceived by Patricia Hill Collins, that race, class, and gender intersect to shape people#xE2;#xAC;"s lives.#xE3;#xAC;#xAC; Useful for courses in social inequalities, poverty, and race/class/gender.