Title

Ruralism

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

9-30-2003

SSRN Discipline

Economics Research Network; Legal Scholarship Network; Development Economics eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Public Law & Legal Theory; ERN Subject Matter eJournals

Abstract

Our society has a lovehate relationship with its rural communities While revering rural areas as embodying the ultimate in quality of life rural citizens are simultaneously denigrated as uneducated backward and unsophisticated In this Article Professor Bassett notes that our societys focus its programs its culture and its standards are based on an urban assumption This urban focus both overshadows and marginalizes rural dwellers Professor Bassett argues that ruralism is a pervasive form of discrimination largely unrecognized unacknowledged and unexamined and one often impacting most harshly those individuals who already are subject to other forms of discrimination based on gender class and race

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