I use Royce’s book Poverty and Power when teaching a sociology course focused on social class. In a clear and up-to-date manner, Royce challenges common myths about social class in the U.S., and presents data and corresponding arguments that reveal structural causes of poverty, rooted in economic, political, social, and cultural systems.
— Laurel R. Davis-Delano, Professor of Sociology, Springfield College
The single most comprehensive structural exploration of inequality and poverty.
— Rick Eckstein, Villanova University
Poverty and Power is an essential text for students interested in understanding the intersection of structural poverty and the unequal distribution of power in the U.S., and how the former is perpetuated by the latter.
— Arturo Baiocchi, California State University, Sacramento
Poverty and Poweris the best one-stop-shop I have found for helping students to understand how inadequate our understandings of poverty are in the U.S. and how central power is to fostering—and, ultimately, to addressing—poverty.
— Michael Barram, Saint Mary's College of California
Poverty and Power is an excellent textbook that not only provides rigorous analysis of the ongoing socio-economic issues in the United States, but challenges students to think more critically at how structural and institutional norms reinforce poverty.
— Randy Goldson, Temple University
A brilliantly written book about the causes and consequences of American poverty that serves as a wakeup call to a nation with the ideals of justice, but the realities of gross inequity born out of injustice.
— Rebecca Havens, Point Loma Nazarene University