04004cam a2200541 i 4500 9781003370666 FlBoTFG 20251030122241.0 m o d cr cnu|||unuuu 250218s2025 nyu go 000 0 eng d OCoLC-P eng rda pn OCoLC-P 9781003370666 (electronic bk.) 1003370667 (electronic bk.) 9781032441429 9781040331965 (electronic bk. : PDF) 1040331963 (electronic bk. : PDF) 9781040332306 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 1040332307 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 9781032441399 10.4324/9781003370666 doi (OCoLC)1500087395 (OCoLC-P)1500087395 NX180.S6 SOC 022000 bisacsh SOC 050000 bisacsh SOC 031000 bisacsh JHB bicssc Peddie, Ian, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjHk3gBQmpH7Wj3wrxxBCP 94002 Culture, the Arts, and Inequality : American Artists and Social Justice / Ian Peddie. New York : Routledge, 2025. 1 online resource (x, 152 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Langston Hughes and "Negro Neighborhoods": From the Ghetto to the Hyperghetto2. Exclusionary Discourses, Articulated Disadvantages: Nelson Algren andThe Politics of Inequality in Mid-Century America.3. Thomas McGrath: The Moral Obligation to Those Who Suffer4. Ann Petry: The Spatiality of Injustice5. The Privacy of Pain: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Privations of Property6. Village Ghetto Land: Stevie Wonder and the Arrival of the Hyperghetto7. Gil Scott Heron: Revolution of the MindEpilogueBibliography Examining how writers and musicians respond to attempts to define and categorize inequality in moral terms, Culture, the Arts and Inequality: American Artists and Social Justice analyzes the writers and artists who challenge the moral categories through which inequality has been maintained and mobilized. Beginning with the work of Langston Hughes, whose fears for the African American community echo fifty years later in Stevie Wonder's urban chronicles, and including key American voices such as Nelson Algren, Thomas McGrath, Ann Petry, and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as "Godfather of Rap" Gil Scott-Heron, this book tackles the mechanisms that compelled writers and musicians to reassert the worth and value of those they wrote about, opposing the fixing in place of moral classifications applied to cultures and people deemed of little worth. Without adequate analysis of those classifications, and particularly the role of moral attribution in identifying and categorizing those deemed unworthy, we struggle to understand inequality's impact on society and individuals--leading to a partial conceptualization of how it is understood and experienced. Recognizing that new ways of thinking about class, dominated by moral questions but with real material effects, and its impact on writers, musicians, and society are at stake, this interdisciplinary project redefines discourses on inequality in the United States today. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Arts and society United States. 94003 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture bisacsh 94004 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes bisacsh 59187 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations bisacsh 94005 Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003370666 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf E-Books 67688 67688