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Subject(s)

• COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023—Social aspects [Browse]
• Minority college students—California—Los Angeles [Browse]
• Minority college students—New York (State)—New York [Browse]

Related name

• Theoharis, Jeanne [Browse]

Series

Contemporary Ethnography Series [More in this series]

Summary note

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19's devastating effects on working-class communities of colorThe first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept the country functioning. "And when they write those history books, the heroes of the battle will be the hardworking families of New York," Governor Andrew Cuomo trumpeted on Labor Day 2020. But what if those heroes, those essential workers and their families, wrote the book themselves?In Until We're Seen, the heroes write their own stories. Through firsthand accounts by college students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We're Seen chronicles COVID-19's devastating, disproportionate effects on working-class communities of color, even as the United States has declared the pandemic over and looks away from its impacts.Very few of these students and their families had the luxury of laboring from home; if they were able to keep their jobs, they took subways and buses, and they worked. They drove delivery trucks, worked in private homes, cooked food in restaurants for people to pick up, worked as EMTs, and did construction. They couldn't escape to second homes; if anything, more people moved in, as families were forced to consolidate to save money. Together, the accounts in this book show that the COVID-19 pandemic did discriminate, following the race and class fissures endemic to US society. But if these are tales of hardship, they are also love stories--of students' families, biological and chosen--and of the deep resolve, mundane carework, and herculean efforts such love entails.Recounting 2020-2022 through the experiences of predominantly young, working-class immigrants and people of color living in the first two major US COVID-19 epicenters, Until We're Seen spotlights previously untold stories of the pandemic in New York, Los Angeles, and the nation as a whole.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction: When the Heroes Write Their Own Stories, What Do We See?
• PART I. ESSENTIAL WORK, DISPOSABLE WORKERS
• Chapter 1. Until We're Seen
• Chapter 2. Prole-ific
• Chapter 3. Double Jeopardy
• Chapter 4. Beloved, but Forced to Live and Die in the Shadows
• Chapter 5. When Essential Student Workers Strike Back
• PART II. RACISM, FAMILY, AND COMMITMENTS IN A TIME OF EMERGENCY
• Chapter 6. Me, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness
• Chapter 7. From Ahuehuetitla to Brooklyn: Immigrant Life Under COVID-19
• Chapter 8. COVID-19 Deportations
• Chapter 9. Chinatown Through a Pandemic: A Phoenix Rising
• Chapter 10. Black Lives Matter: COVID-19, Race, and Organized Abandonment
• PART III. CRISES OF HEALTH AND HOUSING
• Chapter 11. America's Health Care System Needs 911
• Chapter 12. What It Means to Be an Anxious Pakistani During a Global Pandemic
• Chapter 13. Livin' in the Projects: COVID-19 and Community Resilience
• Chapter 14. COVID-19: Mortality by Zip Code
• Chapter 15. We See from Where We Stand: COVID-19 and the Shape of Us
• PART IV. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, MUTUAL AID, AND STRUGGLE
• Chapter 16. (Need)les and Many Threads: Sewing Community from Pandemic Puerto Rico and Beyond
• Chapter 17. Everybody's Gotta Eat (It's Something My Dad Says)
• Chapter 18. Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and a Cyclical History
• Chapter 19. Pandemic Deepens Food Inequality in Brooklyn: Live from Bed-Stuy
• Chapter 20. On Invisibility
• PART V. GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND INEQUALITY IN LOS ANGELES
• Chapter 21. "Dónde está tu Ita?"
• Chapter 22. "In Our Eyes, He Was Everything": Immigrant Fathers, Workplace Regulations, and COVID-19
• Chapter 23. "Zoom School" and the Digital Divide in Immigrant Communities During COVID-19
• Chapter 24. Safer at Home? Negotiating Religion, UndocuLife, and Queerness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Chapter 25. Autoethnographies from the "Sacrifice Zone" of Latinx Los Angeles
• Conclusion: This Book Is Not a Conclusion to the Pandemic
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments

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ISBN

• 9781512826388
• 1512826383

OCLC

1434003170

Doi

• 10.9783/9781512826388

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