#  Strangers in Our Own Land: A Story of Right and Left 

 



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HARVARD INEQUALITY & SOCIAL POLICY SPECIAL EVENT


###  **Arlie Russell Hochschild**  
 

 Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. *With discussion by*   ![Michele Lamont](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/lamont18.jpg?itok=qsx4FyQ-) 

 

###  **Michèle Lamont**  
 

 Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University.   
  
Wednesday, April 3, 2019  
Harvard Kennedy School [View poster (pdf)](/file_url/2666)   
 **Suggested reading** [   ![PBS NewsHour with Arlie Russell Hochschild](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/arliepbs19.jpg?itok=UO8LtvU2) 

 ](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-louisianans-blame-government-not-corporations-for-pollution-problems) **[P](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-louisianans-blame-government-not-corporations-for-pollution-problems)[BS NewHour](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-louisianans-blame-government-not-corporations-for-pollution-problems)**   
Why Louisianans blame government, not corporations,  
for pollution problems  
March 21, 2019   
  
Meet the people featured in Arlie Russell Hochschild's book, *Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.* Economics correspondent Paul Solman of PBS NewsHour recently followed Arlie Hochschild around Louisiana to re-interview five of those she wrote about in the book [video + transcript].   
[   ![Strangers in Their Own Land, by Arlie Russell Hochschild](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/arliehochschildstrangersbk-001.jpg?itok=gwrh302N) 

 ](https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land)[Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right](https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land).  
Afterword to the paperback edition (2018).  
  
[Donald Trump, ‘The Apprentice,’ and Secular Rapture](https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/05/trump-the-apprentice-and-secular-rapture/7Z0wiDi3efnG41oqasEzGN/story.html)  
By Arlie Russell Hochschild  
Boston Globe (Sep 6, 2016).  
  
[More Republicans Than You Think Support Action on Climate Change](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/opinion/sunday/republicans-climate-change-polls.html)  
By Arlie Russell Hochschild and David Hochschild  
The New York Times (Dec 29, 2018) **About the speaker** **Arlie Russell Hochschild** is one of the most influential sociologists of her generation. She is the author of nine books, including *The Second Shift*, *The Time Bind*, *The Managed Heart*, *The Outsourced Self*, and *Strangers in Their Own Land* (The New Press). Three of her books have been named as *New York Times* Notable Books of the Year and her work appears in sixteen languages. The winner of the Ulysses Medal as well as Guggenheim and Mellon grants, she lives in Berkeley, California.  
  
[Arlie Russell Hochschild homepage ](https://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/arlie-r-hochschild)

 

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