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New Jersey dreaming : capital, culture, and the class of '58 / Sherry B. Ortner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weequahic High School (Newark, N.J.). Class of 1958.
- Weequahic High School (Newark, N.J.).
- Social mobility--United States--Case studies.
- Social mobility.
- High school graduates--New Jersey--Newark--Social conditions.
- High school graduates.
- High school graduates--New Jersey--Newark--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine class culture and ethnicity in America today.
- Contents:
- The making of the class of '58
- Reading class
- Drawing boundaries
- Dealing with boundaries
- American high schools
- Weequahic
- Tracks
- What the class of '58 made
- Counterlives
- Money
- Happiness
- Liberation
- Late capitalism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822387374
- 0822387379
- OCLC:
- 850220021
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