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9780062300546 | Harpercollins, June 28, 2016, cover price $27.99
ÂI ain't goin' to college. Who wants to go to college? I'd just end up gettin' a shitty job anyway.â So said Freddie Piniella, an eleven-year-old boy from Clarendon Heights low-income housing project, to Jay MacLeod, his counselor in a youth program. MacLeod was struck by the seeming self-defeatism of Freddie and his friends. How is it that in America, a nation of dreams and opportunities, a boy of eleven can feel trapped in a position of inherited poverty?The author immersed himself in the teenage underworld of Clarendon Heights. The Hallway Hangers, one of the neighborhood cliques, appear as cynical self-destructive hoodlums. The other group, the Brothers, take the American Dream to heart and aspire to middle-class respectability. The twist is that the Hallway Hangers are mostly white; the Brothers are almost all black. Comparing the two groups, MacLeod provides a provocative account of how poverty is perpetuated from one generation to the next.Part One tells the story of the boys' teenage aspirations. Part Two follows the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers into adulthood. Eight years later the author returns to Clarendon Heights to find the members of both gangs struggling in the labor market or on the streets. Caught in the web of urban industrial decline, the Hallway HangersÂundereducated, unemployed, or imprisonedÂhave turned to the underground economy. But Âcocaine capitalismâ only fuels their desperation, and the Hallway Hangers seek solace in sexism and racism. The ambitious Brothers have fared little better. Their teenage dreams in tatters, the Brothers demonstrate that racism takes its toll on optimistic aspirations.This edition retains the vivid accounts of friendships, families, school, and work that made the first edition so popular. The ethnography resonates with feeling and vivid dialogue. But the book also addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. MacLeod links individual lives with social theory to forge a powerful argument about how inequality is created, sustained, and accepted in the United States.
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9780813315140 | 2 sub edition (Westview Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $61.50 | About this edition: ÂI ain't goin' to college.
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9780813343587, titled "Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations & Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood" | 3 updated edition (Westview Pr, July 28, 2008), cover price $34.99
9780813341873 | Westview Pr, August 5, 2004, cover price $33.00
9780813315157 | Reprint edition (Westview Pr, July 11, 1995), cover price $36.00
Product Description: Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group...read more
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9780822331087 | Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $49.95
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9780822335986 | Duke Univ Pr, September 15, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B.
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9780742516205 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 1, 2003, cover price $103.00
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9780742516212 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, May 1, 2003, cover price $27.00
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9780806128481 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $27.95
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9780300047882 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Describes the experiences of Black ghetto students who were placed in upper-class prep schools during the 1960s, and surveys their lives since graduation
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9780300054330 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Describes the experiences of Black ghetto students who were placed in upper-class prep schools during the 1960s, and surveys their lives since graduation
Product Description: This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain’t No Makin’ It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the “Brothers” and the “Hallway Hangers...read more
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9780813371641, titled "Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-income Neighborhood" | Westview Pr, July 14, 1987, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next.
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9780813371634, titled "Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood" | Westview Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $15.95
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