Secular Book Club - July 2025 - Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild, 23 July | AllEvents

Secular Book Club - July 2025 - Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Center for Inquiry Western New York

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Wed, 23 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm

1310 Sweet Home Rd, Amherst, NY, United States, New York 14228

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1310 Sweet Home Rd, Buffalo, NY 14228, New York, Amherst, United States

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Secular Book Club - July 2025 - Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
CFI WNY Secular Book Club's next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23, 2025. This quarter's selection will be non-fiction.

We will be reading Strangers in Their Own Land by 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?


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Secular Book Club - July 2025 - Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild, 23 July | AllEvents
Secular Book Club - July 2025 - Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Wed, 23 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm