The Culture of Poverty: A Critique

by Eleanor Burke Leacock (Editor)

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382 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1971

About the author

Eleanor Leacock was a unique individual whose political life spanned both academics and the world of struggle. She was an anthropologist who was also a Communist Party sympathizer, blacklisted from tenured faculty positions for a number of years until she was finally hired full-time in the City University of New York system in 1972. Leacock always saw her extensive theoretical writing as work in the service of social justice.