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Dispossessed

How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history.

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Dispossessed by Noelle Stout

This should become an instant classic…

Don Brenneis
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz

A brilliant book that all Americans urgently need to read.

Emily Martin
Author of 'Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture', Founding editor of Anthropology Now

Public anthropology at its finest.

Hugh Gusterson
Author of 'Drone: Remote Control Warfare', Former President of the American Ethnological Society

An important book… A gripping read.

Dan Maharidge
Pulitzer-Prize Winner and Author of 'Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression'

About the Author

Dr. Noelle Stout is a cultural anthropologist, feminist scholar, and an award-winning author and lecturer whose work focuses on the human impact of market creation and disruption.

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Noelle Stout
Noelle Stout

About the Author

Dr. Noelle Stout is a cultural anthropologist, feminist scholar, and an award-winning author and lecturer whose work focuses on the human impact of market creation and disruption.

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Select Works

How the Foreclosure Crisis Shaped Gen Z
Automated Expulsion and the American Foreclosure Crisis
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
When a Yuma Meets Mama: Commodified Kin and the Affective Economies of Queer Tourism in Cuba
Feminist, Queers, and Critics: Debating the Cuban Sex Trade
Petitioning a Giant: Debt, Reciprocity, and Mortgage Modification in the Sacramento Valley
Generating Home
Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class
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