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Working-class heroes : protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood / Maria Kefalas.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kefalas, Maria J., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago.
- Working class.
- Sociology, Urban--Illinois--Chicago.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Social values--Illinois--Chicago.
- Social values.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.
- Beltway (Chicago, Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office workers living in the stable working-class community known as Beltway. Building on the classic Chicago School of urban studies and incorporating new perspectives from cultural geography and sociology, Maria Kefalas considers the significance of home, community, and nation for Beltway residents.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- MAPS AND TABLES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. In Search of Working-Class Chicago
- ONE. Rethinking Race in the Ethnic White Enclave
- TWO. A Precious Corner of the World
- THREE. Home, Sweet Home
- FOUR. For Country and Home
- CONCLUSION. The Last Garden
- Appendix: In the Field
- Notes
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-194) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612762772
- 9781598750157
- 1598750151
- 9780520936652
- 0520936655
- 9781282762770
- 128276277X
- OCLC:
- 475930404
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