The Making of a Teenage Service Class : Poverty and Mobility in an American City / Ranita Ray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, Ranita, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American students--Education--Case studies.

Hispanic American students.

African American students--Education--Case studies.

African American students.

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Urban youth--United States--Case studies.

Urban youth.

Poor youth--United States--Case studies.

Poor youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Ray recounts the three years she spent with sixteen poor black and brown youth, documenting their struggles to balance school and work while keeping commitments to family, friends, and lovers. Hunger, homelessness, untreated illnesses, and long hours spent traveling between work, school, and home disrupted their dreams of upward mobility. While families, schools, nonprofit organizations, academics, and policy makers stress risk behaviors in their efforts to end the cycle of poverty, Ray argues that this strategy reinforces class and racial hierarchies and diverts resources that could better support marginalized youth's efforts to reach their educational and occupational goals.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Mobility Puzzle and Irreconcilable Choices

2. Port City Rising from the Ashes

3. Sibling Ties

4. Risky Love

5. Saved by College

6. The Making of a Teenage Service Class

7. Internalizing Uncertainty: Bad Genes, Hunger, and Homelessness

8. Uncertain Success

9. Dismantling the "At Risk" Discourse

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965614

0520965612

OCLC:

1005226571