Jonathan Emmesedi<p>Striking insight:</p><p>&gt;&gt;In Jennifer Silva’s fine study of working-class couples, “Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty”, she found they made up their own versions of the American Dream. Instead of describing their journey to the dream as getting richer, buying a house or car, they describe an ascent from abuse to full recovery – a journey to the emotional American Dream.&lt;&lt;</p><p>Arlie Russell Hochschild, Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (The New Press, 2024), 128.</p><p>Image: Recovery Fair 2010 -- T-shirt provided by Maine Alliance of Addiction Recovery (MAAR) -- Portland Prevention -- Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 -- Wikimedia Commons</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/USCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USCulture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WorkingClassCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClassCulture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abuse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Recovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Recovery</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericanDream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanDream</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JenniferSilva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JenniferSilva</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ArlieHochschild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArlieHochschild</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sociology</span></a></p>