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Ain't no makin' it : aspirations & attainment in a low-income neighborhood / Jay MacLeod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacLeod, Jay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban poor--United States--Case studies.
- Urban poor.
- Youth with social disabilities--United States--Case studies.
- Youth with social disabilities.
- Social mobility--United States--Case studies.
- Social mobility.
- Equality--United States--Case studies.
- Equality.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 537 pages.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Ain't no making it
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2009]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights public housing development and introduced us to Jinx and Mokey and their teenage friends-the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers-in 1987 with the first edition of Ain't No Makin' It. The dreams of one peer group and the defeatism of the other moved readers, challenged ethnic stereotypes, and suggested how poverty is perpetuated. Eight years later MacLeod returned to Clarendon Heights, and the 1995 revision revealed how the young men struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground economy. This third edition chronicles the lives of the Brothers and Hallway Hangers into middle age. Having renewed relationships with the men, MacLeod allows them to speak for themselves in thirteen new interviews that are by turns heartbreaking and uplifting. Sociologists Katherine McClelland and David Karen analyze these stories in a concluding chapter, ensuring that Ain't No Makin' It remains an admired and invaluable testament to how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next.
- Contents:
- Social immobility in the land of opportunity
- Social reproduction in theoretical perspective
- Teenagers in Clarendon Heights : the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers
- The influence of the family
- The world of work : aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers
- School : preparing for the competition
- Leveled aspirations : social reproduction takes its toll
- Reproduction theory reconsidered
- The Hallway Hangers : dealing in despair
- The Brothers : dreams deferred
- Conclusion : outclassed and outcast(e)
- The Hallway Hangers : weeble, wobble, but we don't fall down
- The Brothers : finally finding a foothold
- Reproduction, redemption, and respect.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-519) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780429495458
- 0429495455
- Publisher Number:
- 99985424695
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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