How Long to Read When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People

How Long Does it Take to Read When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 2 minutes to read When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People by Dara Z. Strolovitch

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the climate crisis to the opioid crisis to the Coronavirus crisis, the language of crisis is everywhere around us and ubiquitous in contemporary American politics and policymaking. But for every problem that political actors describe as a crisis, there are myriad other equally serious ones that are not described in this way. Why has the term crisis been associated with some problems but not others? What has crisis come to mean, and what work does it do? In When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People, Dara Z. Strolovitch brings a critical eye to the taken-for-granted political vernacular of crisis. Using systematic analyses to trace the evolution of the use of the term crisis by both political elites and outsiders, Strolovitch unpacks the idea of “crisis” in contemporary politics and demonstrates that crisis is itself an operation of politics. She shows that racial justice activists innovated the language of crisis in an effort to transform racism from something understood as natural and intractable and to cast it instead as a policy problem that could be remedied. Dominant political actors later seized on the language of crisis to compel the use of state power, but often in ways that compounded rather than alleviated inequality and injustice. In this eye-opening and important book, Strolovitch demonstrates that understanding crisis politics is key to understanding the politics of racial, gender, and class inequalities in the early twenty-first century.

How long is When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People?

When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People by Dara Z. Strolovitch is 421 pages long, and a total of 105,671 words.

This makes it 142% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 37 minutes to read When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People aloud.

What Reading Level is When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People?

When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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