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Coming of age in the other America / Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeLuca, Stefanie, author.
- Clampet-Lundquist, Susan, author.
- Edin, Kathryn, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban youth--United States--Social conditions.
- Urban youth.
- Poor youth--United States--Social conditions.
- Poor youth.
- Youth development--United States.
- Youth development.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Education, Urban--United States.
- Education, Urban.
- Inner cities--United States.
- Inner cities.
- Social mobility--United States.
- Social mobility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 298 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living in more dangerous neighborhoods, going to inferior public schools, and persistent racial inequality. Coming of Age in the Other America shows that despite overwhelming odds, some disadvantaged urban youth do achieve upward mobility. Drawing from ten years of fieldwork with parents and children who resided in Baltimore public housing, sociologists Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin highlight the remarkable resiliency of some of the youth who hailed from the nation's poorest neighborhoods and show how the right public policies might help break the cycle of disadvantage. Coming of Age in the Other America presents a sensitive, nuanced account of how a generation of ambitious but underprivileged young Baltimoreans has struggled to succeed. It both challenges long-held myths about inner-city youth and shows how the process of "social reproduction"-where children end up stuck in the same place as their parents-is far from inevitable. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "Different Privileges That Different People Inherit": Social Reproduction and the Transition to Adulthood 1
- Chapter 2 "More People That Have Stuff to Live For Here": Neighborhood Change and Intergenerational Attainment 17
- Chapter 3 "Following My Passion": How Identity Projects Help Youth Beat the Street and Stay on Track 59
- Chapter 4 "You Never Know What's Happening-This Is Baltimore": The Vulnerability of Youth Without an Identity Project 90
- Chapter 5 "It's Kind of Like Crabs in a Bucket": How Family and Neighborhood Disadvantage Hinder the Transition to Adulthood 119
- Chapter 6 "In and Out Before You Know It": The Educational and Occupational Traps of Expedited Adulthood 146
- Chapter 7 "If It Can Cause Some Kind of Change": Policies to Support Identity Projects and Reduce Educational and Neighborhood Inequality 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2016).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeLuca, Stefanie. Coming of age in the other America
- ISBN:
- 9781610448581
- 1610448588
- Publisher Number:
- 99967464180
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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