This sociologist traced the roots of American capitalism to the plantation in his essay for The 1619 Project. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of the 2023 book Poverty, by America. Another book by this author traces the lives of eight low-income families in Milwaukee.
ANSWER: Matthew Desmond
[10e] In a book that won the 2017 Nonfiction Pulitzer, Desmond argued that the collapse of the housing market during the Great Recession triggered these events, which sent Americans into poverty, rather than poverty causing these events.
ANSWER: evictions [accept Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City]
[10h] Evicted draws on this theory, promulgated by William Julius Wilson in When Work Disappears, which notes that the lack of jobs located in low-income areas causes poverty and joblessness by forcing people to travel long distances for work.
ANSWER: spatial mismatch theory
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